119-s1712

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1712 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1712

 To authorize peace officer standards and training agencies to access 
 criminal history records, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 May 12, 2025

 Mr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Whitehouse) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To authorize peace officer standards and training agencies to access 
 criminal history records, 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. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Criminal History Access Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) Peace officer standards and training agency.--The term 
 ``peace officer standards and training agency'' means an agency 
 of a State with the statutory authority under State law to set 
 standards for the hiring, training, ethical conduct, and 
 retention of the law enforcement officers of the State through 
 certification, licensing, or other similar qualification 
 process.

    (2) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the several 
 States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the 
 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American 
 Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 
 any territory or possession of the United States.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Title 28.--

Section 534

    (e) of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (1) , by striking ``and'';

    (2) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking the period and inserting 
 ``; and''; and

    (3) by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (3) peace officer standards training agencies, as defined 
 in 

section 2 of the Criminal History Access Act of 2025''.

    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall amend section part 20 
of title 28, Code of Federal Regulations, as may be necessary to carry 
out the provisions of this Act.
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