I 
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. 
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 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-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘States Handling Ac-
cess to Reciprocity for Employment Act of 2025’’ or the 
‘‘SHARE Act of 2025’’. 
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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 IN-
VESTIGATION TO PROVIDE CERTAIN CRIMINAL HISTORY 
RECORD INFORMATION.—Subject to the restrictions in 
subsection (b), the Director of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation shall furnish or otherwise make available to a 
State licensing authority, through an agreement with a 
State law enforcement agency or State identification bu-
reau, criminal history record information to the extent re-
quired by an interstate compact, or the regulations duly 
promulgated thereunder, for the purpose of conducting a 
criminal history background check of any individual seek-
ing a license or privilege to practice an occupation or pro-
fession in a compact member State. 
‘‘(b) STATE LICENSING AUTHORITY USE OF CRIMI-
NAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) PROHIBITION.—A State licensing author-
ity 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 
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upon a license or privilege of that individual to prac-
tice 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 CRIMI-
NAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK EXPRESSLY PER-
MITTED.—A State licensing authority informing a 
compact Commission of the completion of the crimi-
nal history background check, including a binary de-
termination 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 legis-
lative enactment of an interstate compact. 
‘‘(2) CRIMINAL
HISTORY
RECORD
INFORMA-
TION.—The term ‘criminal history record informa-
tion’ means information collected by criminal justice 
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agencies on individuals consisting of identifiable de-
scriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, in-
dictments, information, or other formal criminal 
charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, in-
cluding acquittal, sentencing, correctional super-
vision, and release. The term does not include identi-
fication 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 li-
cense, multistate license, certification, or other au-
thorization by which a State licensing authority au-
thorizes 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). 
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‘‘(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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