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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
This joint resolution nullifies the “Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007” rule finalized by the Social Security Administration on December 19, 2016. The rule implements a plan to provide to the National Instant Criminal History Background Check System the name of an individual who meets certain criteria, including that benefit payments are made through a representative payee because the individual is determined to be mentally incapable of managing them. (Current law prohibits firearm sale or transfer to and purchase or possession by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective.)
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.J.Res. 40 as public Law on Feb 28, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Feb 2, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveFeb 15, 2017
House Feb 2, 2017 · the primary vote
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Social Security Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007
Passed
235 Yea 180 Nay 17 not voting
Party-line vote 8 of 415 voting members broke with their own party: 6 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.J.Res. 40 and vote against it. 120 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.J.Res. 40 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
39 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.