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).
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 other institutions includes railroad police departments and campus police departments.
This bill includes police departments of private resorts as other institutions that are authorized to access criminal identification records from the FBI.
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.

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

SECTION 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.''.
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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.
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.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
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.
Rep. Rose, John W.