S.Amdt. 279

SA 279. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 1628, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to
title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year
2017; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. PROTECTION OF SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

(a) Ensuring the Quality of Care.--Section 2717(c) of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-17(c)) is amended
by inserting ``, or the Better Care Reconciliation Act of
2017 or an amendment made by that Act,'' after ``the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act or an amendment made by
that Act'' each place that term appears.
(b) Federal Health Databases; NICS.--No funds made
available to the Department of Health and Human Services or
any other agency under this Act may be used to examine a
Federal health database for the name of an individual to be
submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check
System (commonly known as ``NICS'') established under section
103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C.
922 note).
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