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.

Bill: 117-hr-592
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rose, John W. [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2021-01-28
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records

Evidence and witnesses

Intergovernmental relations

Law enforcement administration and funding

State and local government operations

Travel and tourism
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-01-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>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). </p> <p> 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 <i>other institutions</i> includes railroad police departments and campus police departments. </p> <p>This bill includes police departments of private resorts as <i>other institutions</i> that are authorized to access criminal identification records from the FBI. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 592 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 28, 2021 Mr. Rose introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL 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.

1. Definition of other institutions expanded Section 534(e) of title 28, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (3) police departments serving census-designated private resorts which perform the administration of criminal justice and have arrest powers pursuant to a State statute, which allocate a substantial part of their annual budget to the administration of criminal justice, and which meet training requirements established by law or ordinance for law enforcement officers. .