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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4112 

To allow screening entities to submit, receive, and screen criminal history 

record information for purposes of criminal history record information 

searches on private security officers under the Private Security Officer 

Employment Authorization Act of 2004. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 29, 2012 

Mr. MARINO (for himself and Mr. MEEHAN) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 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 allow screening entities to submit, receive, and screen 

criminal history record information for purposes of criminal history record information searches on private security officers under the Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2004. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Private Security Offi5 cer Screening Improvement Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO ALLOW SCREENING ENTITIES TO 

2 PERFORM CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD IN3 FORMATION SEARCHES. 

4 Section 6402 of the Intelligence Reform and Ter5 rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 401 note) is 

6 amended— 

7 (1) in subsection (c)— 

8 (A) in paragraph (2)(B)— 

9 (i) by inserting ‘‘or through a screen10 ing entity’’ after ‘‘State identification bu11 reau’’; and 

12 (ii) by striking ‘‘section’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘Act’’; and 

14 (B) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and 

15 (5) as paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively, and 

16 by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: 

17 ‘‘(4) SCREENING ENTITY.—The term ‘screening 

18 entity’ means a private business, non-profit organi19 zation, or individual authorized by the Attorney 

20 General to submit, receive, and screen criminal his21 tory record information for the purposes of a crimi22 nal history record information search pursuant to 

23 this Act.’’; and 

24 (2) in subsection (d)— 

25 (A) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ‘‘or 

26 to a screening entity if the State of employment 


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1 is a State that is a non-participating State,’’ 

2 after ‘‘State identification bureau of a partici3 pating State’’; 

4 (B) in paragraph (1)(B)(i), by striking ‘‘to 

5 the State identification bureau of the partici6 pating State the’’ and inserting ‘‘a’’; 

7 (C) in paragraph (1)(C)— 

8 (i) in the subparagraph heading, by 

9 inserting ‘‘OR SCREENING ENTITY’’ before 

10 the period; 

11 (ii) by striking ‘‘pursuant to this Act, 

12 submitted through the State identification 

13 bureau of a participating State’’ and in14 serting ‘‘submitted through a State identi15 fication bureau or a screening entity pur16 suant to this Act’’; and 

17 (iii) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘or 

18 screening entity’’ after ‘‘submitting State 

19 identification bureau’’; 

20 (D) in paragraph (1)(D)(i), by inserting 

21 ‘‘or screening entity’’ after ‘‘by the State identi22 fication bureau’’; 

23 (E) in paragraph (1)(D)(ii)— 

24 (i) in subclause (I)— 


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1 (I) by striking ‘‘a participating’’ 

2 and inserting ‘‘employment in a’’; and 

3 (II) by inserting ‘‘identification 

4 bureau or screening entity’’ after ‘‘, 

5 the State’’; and 

6 (ii) in subclause (II)— 

7 (I) by striking ‘‘a participating’’ 

8 and inserting ‘‘employment in a’’; and 

9 (II) by inserting ‘‘identification 

10 bureau or screening entity’’ after ‘‘, 

11 the State’’; and 

12 (F) in paragraph (2)— 

13 (i) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

14 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

15 (ii) by redesignating subparagraph 

16 (C) as subparagraph (E); and 

17 (iii) by inserting after subparagraph 

18 (B) the following: 

19 ‘‘(C) standards for qualification as a 

20 screening entity; 

21 ‘‘(D) standards and procedures to provide 

22 for screening entities to submit, receive, and 

23 screen criminal history record information for 

24 the purposes of a criminal history record infor25 mation search pursuant to this Act; and’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. REGULATIONS. 

2 Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 

3 of this Act, the Attorney General shall issue such regula4 tions as may be necessary to carry out the amendments 

5 made by this Act. 

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