[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3398 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3398

    To eliminate the requirement that fingerprints be supplied for 
                    background checks on volunteers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 1998

  Mr. Sessions (for himself, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson of 
Texas, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Combest, Ms. Granger, Mr. Hall 
  of Texas, and Mr. Weldon of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To eliminate the requirement that fingerprints be supplied for 
                    background checks on volunteers.

    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 ``Volunteer Organization Safety Act of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION SAFETY.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United States 
Government shall not require, as a condition of completing a State and 
Federal criminal history check, otherwise authorized by law, through 
the national criminal history background check system into the 
background of a volunteer worker for purposes of determining whether 
such volunteer worker is fit for the work, that the requesting entity 
supply the fingerprints of that volunteer worker.
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