H.R. 592 · 117th Congress

To amend title 28, United States Code, to expand the definition of "other institutions" for purposes of acquisition, preservation, and exchange of identification records and information, and for other purposes.

Stage
In committee
Sponsor
John Rose
Introduced
2021-01-28
Latest action
2021-03-22 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summary

This bill expands the scope of entities that are authorized to access criminal identification records (e.g., fingerprints) from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Current law authorizes the FBI to exchange criminal identification and other records with authorized officials of the federal government, states tribes, cities, and penal and other institutions. The term other institutions includes railroad police departments and campus police departments.

This bill includes police departments of private resorts as other institutions that are authorized to access criminal identification records from the FBI.