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HB 166 Original 2018 Regular Session Mack
Abstract: Provides for the adoption and ratification of the National Crime Prevention and Privacy
Compact Act of 1998 and provides for the duties of the La. Bureau of Criminal Identification
and Information in this regard.
Present law requires the La. Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information (bureau) to cooperate
with the U.S. Dept. of Justice and other federal criminal justice agencies and with similar agencies
in other states and cities toward developing a comprehensive state, interstate, national, and
international system of criminal information, identification, investigation, records, and statistics.
Proposed law retains present law and adopts and ratifies the National Crime Prevention and Privacy
Compact Act of 1998 (compact) which establishes an electronic information sharing system among
the federal government and the states to exchange criminal history record information for
noncriminal justice purposes authorized by federal or state law, such as background checks for
governmental licensing and employment, immigration and naturalization matters, and national
security clearances.
Under the compact, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the participating states agree to maintain
detailed databases of their respective criminal history record information, including arrests and
dispositions, and to make them available to the federal government and to the participating states for
purposes authorized by law.
Proposed law provides for the following with regard to the ratification of the compact:
(1)The compact shall remain in effect in this state until legislation is enacted renouncing the
compact.
(2)The bureau shall execute, administer, and implement the compact on behalf of the state and
may adopt necessary rules, regulations, and procedures for the national exchange of criminal
history records for noncriminal justice purposes.
(3)Ratification of the compact does not affect the obligations and responsibilities of the bureau
regarding the dissemination of criminal history record information within the state pursuant
to present law.
(Amends R.S. 15:584)