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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 164
113TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 113-86
VETERANS SECOND AMENDMENT PROTECTION ACT
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013.-Ordered to be printed
Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of August 1, 2013.
Mr. SANDERS, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 572]
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs (hereinafter, the Com-
mittee), to which was referred the bill (S. 572), to amend title 38,
United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain
persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for
certain purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
INTRODUCTION
On March 14, 2013, Committee Ranking Minority Member Rich-
ard Burr introduced S. 572, which would amend the criteria used
by the Department of Veterans Affairs (hereinafter, VA) in re-
porting names of VA beneficiaries to the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation (hereinafter, FBI) for entry into the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (hereinafter, NICS). Com-
mittee Members John Boozman and Jerry Moran are original co-
sponsors, as are Senators Saxby Chambliss, Mike Crapo, Michael
B. Enzi, James M. Inhofe, James E. Risch, Pat Roberts, John
Thune, David Vitter, and Roger F. Wicker. Senators Thad Cochran
and Jeff Sessions were later added as cosponsors. The bill was re-
ferred to the Committee.
COMMITTEE HEARING
On June 12, 2013, the Committee held a hearing on legislation
pending before the Committee at which testimony on S. 572,
among other bills, was offered by Curtis L. Coy, Deputy Under Sec-
retary for Economic Opportunity, Veterans Benefits Administra-
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