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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2332
To authorize the use of Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history
record information for administration of certain licenses.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH25, 2025
Mr. M
ANN(for himself, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. DAVISof North
Carolina, Mr. C
RENSHAW, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MEUSER, Mr. GRAVES, Ms.
B
OEBERT, Mr. MCCAUL, Mrs. BICE, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. SCHMIDT, and
Mr. W
IED) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee 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 for consideration of such provisions as fall within
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To authorize the use of Federal Bureau of Investigation
criminal history record information for administration
of certain licenses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘States Handling Ac-4
cess to Reciprocity for Employment Act of 2025’’ or the 5
‘‘SHARE Act of 2025’’. 6
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SEC. 2. SHARING AND USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD 1
INFORMATION. 2
Subtitle E of title VI of the Intelligence Reform and 3
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (34 U.S.C. 41106 et 4
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 5
‘‘SEC. 6404. SHARING AND USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY 6
RECORD INFORMATION. 7
‘‘(a) R
EQUIREMENT FOR FEDERALBUREAU OFIN-8
VESTIGATIONTOPROVIDECERTAINCRIMINALHISTORY 9
R
ECORDINFORMATION.—Subject to the restrictions in 10
subsection (b), the Director of the Federal Bureau of In-11
vestigation shall furnish or otherwise make available to a 12
State licensing authority, through an agreement with a 13
State law enforcement agency or State identification bu-14
reau, criminal history record information to the extent re-15
quired by an interstate compact, or the regulations duly 16
promulgated thereunder, for the purpose of conducting a 17
criminal history background check of any individual seek-18
ing a license or privilege to practice an occupation or pro-19
fession in a compact member State. 20
‘‘(b) S
TATELICENSINGAUTHORITYUSE OFCRIMI-21
NALHISTORYRECORDINFORMATION.— 22
‘‘(1) P
ROHIBITION.—A State licensing author-23
ity that is a member of an interstate compact that 24
requires completion of a criminal history background 25
check for an individual for the purpose of acting 26
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upon a license or privilege of that individual to prac-1
tice an occupation or profession in a State shall use 2
such information solely for that purpose and may 3
not share criminal history record information or any 4
part thereof with the compact’s Commission, any 5
other State entity or State Licensing Authority, or 6
the public. 7
‘‘(2) S
HARING FACT OF COMPLETION OF CRIMI -8
NAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK EXPRESSLY PER -9
MITTED.—A State licensing authority informing a 10
compact Commission of the completion of the crimi-11
nal history background check, including a binary de-12
termination of whether or not the criminal history 13
background check of an applicant was satisfactory, 14
is expressly permitted under this section and shall 15
not constitute the sharing of criminal history record 16
information under paragraph (1). 17
‘‘(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 18
‘‘(1) C
OMMISSION.—The term ‘Commission’ 19
means a joint governmental entity, including an 20
interstate compact commission, established by legis-21
lative enactment of an interstate compact. 22
‘‘(2) C
RIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMA -23
TION.—The term ‘criminal history record informa-24
tion’ means information collected by criminal justice 25
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agencies on individuals consisting of identifiable de-1
scriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, in-2
dictments, information, or other formal criminal 3
charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, in-4
cluding acquittal, sentencing, correctional super-5
vision, and release. The term does not include identi-6
fication information such as fingerprint records if 7
such information does not indicate the individual’s 8
involvement with the criminal justice system. 9
‘‘(3) L
ICENSE.—The term ‘license’ means a li-10
cense, multistate license, certification, or other au-11
thorization by which a State licensing authority au-12
thorizes an individual to practice an occupation or 13
profession in that State. 14
‘‘(4) P
RIVILEGE.—The term ‘privilege’ means a 15
grant of authority issued pursuant to an interstate 16
compact to a license holder that permits the license 17
holder to practice in a compact member State. 18
‘‘(5) S
TATE.—The term ‘State’ means any 19
State, territory, or possession of the United States, 20
and the District of Columbia. 21
‘‘(6) S
TATE IDENTIFICATION BUREAU .—The 22
term ‘State identification bureau’ has the meaning 23
given such term in section 6402(c). 24
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‘‘(7) STATE LICENSING AUTHORITY .—The term 1
‘State licensing authority’ means a State licensing 2
board, agency, department, or other entity that is 3
empowered under the law of that State to grant a 4
license to practice an occupation or profession.’’. 5
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