Peace Officer Standards and Training Agency Information Access Clarification Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5211 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5211

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 8, 2025

 Mr. Schmidt introduced the following bill; which was 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 ``Peace Officer Standards and Training 
Agency Information Access Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

    (a) Attorney General Duties.--Section 534 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4), by amending to read as follows:
            ``(4) exchange such records and information with, and for 
        the official use of, authorized officials of the Federal 
        Government, including the United States Sentencing Commission, 
        the States, including State sentencing commissions and peace 
        officer standards and training agencies, Indian tribes, cities, 
        and penal and other institutions; and'';
            (2) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by striking ``section, the term'' and inserting 
                the following: ``section--
            ``(1) the term'';
                    (B) by striking ``(1) railroad'' and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(A) railroad'';
                    (C) by striking ``(2) police'' and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(B) police'';
                    (D) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                a semicolon; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) 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; and
            ``(3) the term `State' means each of the several States of 
        the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
        of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, 
        American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
        Islands, and any territory or possession of the United 
        States.''.
    (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 necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this Act.
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