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Calendar No. 382

105TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 2022

To provide for the improvement of interstate criminal justice identification,

information, communications, and forensics.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

APRIL 30, 1998

Mr. DEWINE (for himself, Mr. HATCH, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. ABRAHAM, Mr.

DASCHLE, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. THURMOND, Mr. GLENN, and Mr. JOHNSON) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to

the Committee on the Judiciary

MAY 21, 1998

Reported by Mr. HATCH, with an amendment

[Insert the part printed in italic]

A BILL

To provide for the improvement of interstate criminal justice

identification, information, communications, and forensics.

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 ‘‘Crime Identification

5 Technology Act of 1998’’.
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1 SEC. 2. STATE GRANT PROGRAM FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE

2 IDENTIFICATION, INFORMATION, AND COM3 MUNICATION.

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of

5 amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the

6 Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Statis7 tics of the Department of Justice, shall make a grant to

8 each State, which shall be used by the State, in conjunc9 tion with units of local government, State and local courts,

10 other States, or combinations thereof, to establish or up11 grade an integrated approach to develop information and

12 identification technologies and systems to—

13 (1) upgrade criminal history and criminal jus14 tice record systems, including systems operated by

15 law enforcement agencies and courts;

16 (2) improve criminal justice identification;

17 (3) promote compatibility and integration of na18 tional, State, and local systems for—

19 (A) criminal justice purposes;

20 (B) firearms eligibility determinations;

21 (C) identification of sexual offenders;

22 (D) identification of domestic violence of23 fenders; and

24 (E) background checks for other author25 ized purposes unrelated to criminal justice; and
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1 (4) capture information for statistical and re2 search purposes to improve the administration of

3 criminal justice.

4 (b) USE OF GRANT AMOUNTS.—Grants under this

5 section may be used for programs to establish, develop,

6 update, or upgrade—

7 (1) State centralized, automated, adult and ju8 venile criminal history record information systems,

9 including arrest and disposition reporting;

10 (2) automated fingerprint identification systems

11 that are compatible with standards established by

12 the National Institute of Standards and Technology

13 and interoperable with the Integrated Automated

14 Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) of the

15 Federal Bureau of Investigation;

16 (3) finger imaging, live scan, and other auto17 mated systems to digitize fingerprints and to com18 municate prints in a manner that is compatible with

19 standards established by the National Institute of

20 Standards and Technology and interoperable with

21 systems operated by States and by the Federal Bu22 reau of Investigation;

23 (4) programs and systems to facilitate full par24 ticipation in the Interstate Identification Index of

25 the National Crime Information Center;
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1 (5) systems to facilitate full participation in any

2 compact relating to the Interstate Identification

3 Index of the National Crime Information Center;

4 (6) systems to facilitate full participation in the

5 national instant criminal background check system

6 established under section 103(b) of the Brady Hand7 gun Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note)

8 for firearms eligibility determinations;

9 (7) integrated criminal justice information sys10 tems to manage and communicate criminal justice

11 information among law enforcement agencies, courts,

12 prosecutors, and corrections agencies;

13 (8) noncriminal history record information sys14 tems relevant to firearms eligibility determinations

15 for availability and accessibility to the national in16 stant criminal background check system established

17 under section 103(b) of the Brady Handgun Vio18 lence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note);

19 (9) court-based criminal justice information sys20 tems that promote—

21 (A) reporting of dispositions to central

22 State repositories and to the Federal Bureau of

23 Investigation; and
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1 (B) compatibility with, and integration of,

2 court systems with other criminal justice infor3 mation systems;

4 (10) ballistics identification and information

5 programs that are compatible and integrated with

6 the National Integrated Ballistics Network (NIBN);

7 (11) DNA programs for forensic and identifica8 tion purposes, and identification and information

9 programs to improve forensic analysis and to assist

10 in accrediting crime laboratories;

11 (12) sexual offender identification and registra12 tion systems;

13 (13) domestic violence offender identification

14 and information systems;

15 (14) programs for fingerprint-supported back16 ground checks capability for noncriminal justice pur17 poses, including youth service employees and volun18 teers and other individuals in positions of respon19 sibility, if authorized by Federal or State law and

20 administered by a government agency;

21 (15) criminal justice information systems with a

22 capacity to provide statistical and research products

23 including incident-based reporting systems that are

24 compatible with the National Incident-Based Report-
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1 ing System (NIBRS) and uniform crime reports;

2 and

3 (16) multiagency, multijurisdictional commu4 nications systems among the States to share routine

5 and emergency information among Federal, State,

6 and local law enforcement agencies.

7 (c) ASSURANCES.—To be eligible to receive a grant

8 under this section, a State shall provide assurances to the

9 Attorney General that the State has the capability to con10 tribute pertinent information to the national instant crimi11 nal background check system established under section

12 103(b) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

13 (18 U.S.C. 922 note).

14 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

15 (1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be

16 appropriated to carry out this section $250,000,000

17 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003.

18 (2) LIMITATIONS.—Of the amount made avail19 able to carry out this section in any fiscal year—

20 (A) not more than 3 percent may be used

21 by the Attorney General for salaries and admin22 istrative expenses;

23 (B) not more than 5 percent may be used

24 for technical assistance, training and evalua25 tions, and studies commissioned by Bureau of
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1 Justice Statistics of the Department of Justice

2 (through discretionary grants or otherwise) in

3 furtherance of the purposes of this section; and

4 (C) the Attorney General shall ensure the

5 amounts are distributed on an equitable geo6 graphic basis.

7 (e) GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES.—Notwithstanding

8 any other provision of this section, the Attorney General

9 may use amounts made available under this section to make

10 grants to Indian tribes for use in accordance with this sec11 tion.
Calendar No. 382

105TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 2022

A BILL

To provide for the improvement of interstate criminications, and forensics. nal justice identification, information, commuMAY 21, 1998

Reported with an amendment