SHARE Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2332 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2332

   To authorize the use of Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal
   history record information for administration of certain licenses.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 25, 2025

  Mr. Mann (for himself, Mr. Neguse, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Davis of North
    Carolina, Mr. Crenshaw, Ms. Norton, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Graves, Ms.
Boebert, Mr. McCaul, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Schmidt, and Mr. Wied)
 introduced the following bill; which was 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 for consideration of such provisions as fall within the
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 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 Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``States Handling Access to
Reciprocity for Employment Act of 2025'' or the ``SHARE Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. SHARING AND USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION.

    Subtitle E of title VI of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2004 (34 U.S.C. 41106 et seq.) is amended by adding
at the end the following:

``SEC. 6404. SHARING AND USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION.

    ``(a) Requirement for Federal Bureau of Investigation To Provide
Certain Criminal History Record Information.--Subject to the
restrictions in subsection (b), the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation shall furnish or otherwise make available to a State
licensing authority, through an agreement with a State law enforcement
agency or State identification bureau, criminal history record
information to the extent required by an interstate compact, or the
regulations duly promulgated thereunder, for the purpose of conducting
a criminal history background check of any individual seeking a license
or privilege to practice an occupation or profession in a compact
member State.
    ``(b) State Licensing Authority Use of Criminal History Record
Information.--
            ``(1) Prohibition.--A State licensing authority that is a
        member of an interstate compact that requires completion of a
        criminal history background check for an individual for the
        purpose of acting upon a license or privilege of that
        individual to practice an occupation or profession in a State
        shall use such information solely for that purpose and may not
        share criminal history record information or any part thereof
        with the compact's Commission, any other State entity or State
        Licensing Authority, or the public.
            ``(2) Sharing fact of completion of criminal history
        background check expressly permitted.--A State licensing
        authority informing a compact Commission of the completion of
        the criminal history background check, including a binary
        determination of whether or not the criminal history background
        check of an applicant was satisfactory, is expressly permitted
        under this section and shall not constitute the sharing of
        criminal history record information under paragraph (1).
    ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Commission.--The term `Commission' means a joint
        governmental entity, including an interstate compact
        commission, established by legislative enactment of an
        interstate compact.
            ``(2) Criminal history record information.--The term
        `criminal history record information' means information
        collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals
        consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of
        arrests, detentions, indictments, information, or other formal
        criminal charges, and any disposition arising therefrom,
        including acquittal, sentencing, correctional supervision, and
        release. The term does not include identification information
        such as fingerprint records if such information does not
        indicate the individual's involvement with the criminal justice
        system.
            ``(3) License.--The term `license' means a license,
        multistate license, certification, or other authorization by
        which a State licensing authority authorizes an individual to
        practice an occupation or profession in that State.
            ``(4) Privilege.--The term `privilege' means a grant of
        authority issued pursuant to an interstate compact to a license
        holder that permits the license holder to practice in a compact
        member State.
            ``(5) State.--The term `State' means any State, territory,
        or possession of the United States, and the District of
        Columbia.
            ``(6) State identification bureau.--The term `State
        identification bureau' has the meaning given such term in
        section 6402(c).
            ``(7) State licensing authority.--The term `State licensing
        authority' means a State licensing board, agency, department,
        or other entity that is empowered under the law of that State
        to grant a license to practice an occupation or profession.''.
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