Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case fo…
The bill authorizes the FBI to provide criminal history record information (CHRI) to State licensing authorities, via agreements with State law enforcement or identification bureaus, when required by interstate compacts or their regulations.
State licensing authorities may use CHRI only to conduct the compact-required background check for licensing or practice privileges and generally may not share that CHRI further.
The bill expressly permits reporting to a compact commission that a background check was completed and whether it was satisfactory, as a binary determination.
Technocratic, limited-scope bill with modest implementation issues; plausible bipartisan support but privacy concerns and Senate process lower odds.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill establishes a clear, narrow substantive change authorizing the FBI to furnish criminal history record information to State licensing authorities for interstate-compact background checks and imposes a specific prohibition on further sharing, with definitions that help delimit scope.
Liberals emphasize rehabilitation, sealing, and racial-disparity safeguards
Liberals emphasize rehabilitation, sealing, and racial-disparity safeguards
Cautiously mixed.
The bill could ease occupational mobility but lacks protections against misuse of criminal records and does not address record sealing or racial disparities.
Support would depend on added safeguards for rehabilitation, accuracy, and limits on convictions versus arrests.
Generally supportive but wanting guardrails.
The bill pragmatically enables compacts to get needed CHRI for licensing while limiting broad sharing.
Support hinges on clear privacy controls, oversight, and minimal new costs to states.
Mostly supportive.
The bill helps remove state-by-state licensing barriers by enabling background checks under interstate compacts, while restricting wider dissemination of records.
Concerns focus on avoiding expanded federal control and ensuring public safety.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Technocratic, limited-scope bill with modest implementation issues; plausible bipartisan support but privacy concerns and Senate process lower odds.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals emphasize rehabilitation, sealing, and racial-disparity safeguards
Technocratic, limited-scope bill with modest implementation issues; plausible bipartisan support but privacy concerns and Senate process lo…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill establishes a clear, narrow substantive change authorizing the FBI to furnish criminal history record information to State licensing authorities for interstate-compac…
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