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[H.R. 8352 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.8352

                     One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Saturday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-six


                                 An Act


 
  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 
2026''.
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 part 20 of 
title 28, Code of Federal Regulations, as necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this Act.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.