Create a Fingerprint and Criminal History Data Report : Directs the U.S. Attorney General to submit a report to Congress identifying deficiencies in the sharing of fingerprint, warrant, and criminal history data between states and the federal government.
Require the Attorney General to report to Congress on deficiencies in sharing fingerprint, warrant, and criminal history data between states and the federal government.
Occurrences
Evidence
Fry's office said the House passed the Kayla Hamilton Act. The summary says the bill would make HHS collect and share background information, including FBI fingerprint check results, and seek criminal-history information for older unaccompanied children.
The reported House text for H.R. 4371 was printed after committee action. It requires HHS to consult DHS and the Attorney General and to obtain criminal records and gang-related information, but I did not find a provision requiring the Attorney General to report to Congress on state-federal fingerprint, warrant, or criminal-history data-sharing deficiencies.
Assessments
Fry took serious same-term legislative action in a related public-safety and data-sharing area, including House passage of the Kayla Hamilton Act, which would expand collection and sharing of background and criminal-history information. But the official bill text does not contain the specific promised requirement that the Attorney General report to Congress on deficiencies in sharing fingerprint, warrant, and criminal-history data between states and the federal government. Because the specific promised outcome was not delivered, but there was a material legislative effort in the same policy space, this is best scored as never with effort credit.