SHARE Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2332 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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 Committee 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

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``States Handling Access to 
Reciprocity for Employment Act of 2025'' or the ``SHARE Act of 2025''.

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 Investigation To Provide 
Certain Criminal History Record Information.--Subject to the 
restrictions in subsection (b), the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation shall furnish or otherwise make available to a State 
licensing authority, through an agreement with a State law enforcement 
agency or State identification bureau, criminal history record 
information to the extent required by an interstate compact, or the 
regulations duly promulgated thereunder, for the purpose of conducting 
a criminal history background check of any individual seeking a license 
or privilege to practice an occupation or profession in a compact 
member State.
    ``(b) State Licensing Authority Use of Criminal History Record 
Information.--
            ``(1) Prohibition.--A State licensing authority 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 upon a license or privilege of that 
        individual to practice 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 criminal history 
        background check expressly permitted.--A State licensing 
        authority informing a compact Commission of the completion of 
        the criminal history background check, including a binary 
        determination 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 legislative enactment of an 
        interstate compact.
            ``(2) Criminal history record information.--The term 
        `criminal history record information' means information 
        collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals 
        consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of 
        arrests, detentions, indictments, information, or other formal 
        criminal charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, 
        including acquittal, sentencing, correctional supervision, and 
        release. The term does not include identification 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 license, 
        multistate license, certification, or other authorization by 
        which a State licensing authority authorizes 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).
            ``(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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