[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3273-S3274]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1856. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish

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a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science 
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require 
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, 
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical 
supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. USCIS ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS.

       (a) In General.--In addition to any other access to 
     criminal history records authorized for noncriminal justice 
     purposes under the National Crime History Access and Child 
     Protection Act (34 U.S.C. 40311 et seq.), the Attorney 
     General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation shall provide the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security, for purposes relating to immigration and 
     naturalization matters, with--
       (1) direct access to criminal history records without 
     submission of positive identification, including name-check 
     access to the Interstate Identification Index (III) System; 
     and
       (2) access to sealed record information and any other 
     criminal history information on the same terms as are 
     provided to an agency performing a criminal justice or law 
     enforcement purpose.
       (b) Definitions.--The definitions in section 213 of the 
     National Criminal History Access and Child Protection Act (34 
     U.S.C. 40312) shall apply to subsection (a).
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