[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 2022 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2022

     To provide for the improvement of interstate criminal justice 
      identification, information, communications, and forensics.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 30, 1998

  Mr. DeWine (for himself, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. 
   Daschle) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for the improvement of interstate criminal justice 
      identification, information, communications, and forensics.

    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 ``Crime Identification Technology Act 
of 1998''.

SEC. 2. STATE GRANT PROGRAM FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE IDENTIFICATION, 
              INFORMATION, AND COMMUNICATION.

    (a) In General.--Subject to the availability of amounts provided in 
advance in appropriations Acts, the Attorney General, through the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics of the Department of Justice, shall make a 
grant to each State, which shall be used by the State, in conjunction 
with units of local government, State and local courts, other States, 
or combinations thereof, to establish or upgrade an integrated approach 
to develop information and identification technologies and systems to--
            (1) upgrade criminal history and criminal justice record 
        systems, including systems operated by law enforcement agencies 
        and courts;
            (2) improve criminal justice identification;
            (3) promote compatibility and integration of national, 
        State, and local systems for--
                    (A) criminal justice purposes;
                    (B) firearms eligibility determinations;
                    (C) identification of sexual offenders;
                    (D) identification of domestic violence offenders; 
                and
                    (E) background checks for other authorized purposes 
                unrelated to criminal justice; and
            (4) capture information for statistical and research 
        purposes to improve the administration of criminal justice.
    (b) Use of Grant Amounts.--Grants under this section may be used 
for programs to establish, develop, update, or upgrade--
            (1) State centralized, automated, adult and juvenile 
        criminal history record information systems, including arrest 
        and disposition reporting;
            (2) automated fingerprint identification systems that are 
        compatible with standards established by the National Institute 
        of Standards and Technology and interoperable with the 
        Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) 
        of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
            (3) finger imaging, live scan, and other automated systems 
        to digitize fingerprints and to communicate prints in a manner 
        that is compatible with standards established by the National 
        Institute of Standards and Technology and interoperable with 
        systems operated by States and by the Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation;
            (4) programs and systems to facilitate full participation 
        in the Interstate Identification Index of the National Crime 
        Information Center;
            (5) systems to facilitate full participation in any compact 
        relating to the Interstate Identification Index of the National 
        Crime Information Center;
            (6) systems to facilitate full participation in the 
        national instant criminal background check system established 
        under section 103(b) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention 
        Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note) for firearms eligibility 
        determinations;
            (7) integrated criminal justice information systems to 
        manage and communicate criminal justice information among law 
        enforcement agencies, courts, prosecutors, and corrections 
        agencies;
            (8) noncriminal history record information systems relevant 
        to firearms eligibility determinations for availability and 
        accessibility to the national instant criminal background check 
        system established under section 103(b) of the Brady Handgun 
        Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note);
            (9) court-based criminal justice information systems that 
        promote--
                    (A) reporting of dispositions to central State 
                repositories and to the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation; and
                    (B) compatibility with, and integration of, court 
                systems with other criminal justice information 
                systems;
            (10) ballistics identification and information programs 
        that are compatible and integrated with the National Integrated 
        Ballistics Network (NIBN);
            (11) DNA programs for forensic and identification purposes, 
        and identification and information programs to improve forensic 
        analysis and to assist in accrediting crime laboratories;
            (12) sexual offender identification and registration 
        systems;
            (13) domestic violence offender identification and 
        information systems;
            (14) programs for fingerprint-supported background checks 
        capability for noncriminal justice purposes, including youth 
        service employees and volunteers and other individuals in 
        positions of responsibility, if authorized by Federal or State 
        law and administered by a government agency;
            (15) criminal justice information systems with a capacity 
        to provide statistical and research products including 
        incident-based reporting systems that are compatible with the 
        National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and uniform 
        crime reports; and
            (16) multiagency, multijurisdictional communications 
        systems among the States to share routine and emergency 
        information among Federal, State, and local law enforcement 
        agencies.
    (c) Assurances.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
section, a State shall provide assurances to the Attorney General that 
the State has the capability to contribute pertinent information to the 
national instant criminal background check system established under 
section 103(b) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 
922 note).
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
        carry out this section $250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
        1999 through 2003.
            (2) Limitations.--Of the amount made available to carry out 
        this section in any fiscal year--
                    (A) not more than 3 percent may be used by the 
                Attorney General for salaries and administrative 
                expenses;
                    (B) not more than 5 percent may be used for 
                technical assistance, training and evaluations, and 
                studies commissioned by Bureau of Justice Statistics of 
                the Department of Justice (through discretionary grants 
                or otherwise) in furtherance of the purposes of this 
                section; and
                    (C) the Attorney General shall ensure the amounts 
                are distributed on an equitable geographic basis.
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