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Committee advances cleanup bill to align state background-check language with FBI requirements
Summary
The House Business, Labor & Employment Committee on Thursday advanced SB 146, a technical cleanup bill that revises state statutes so fingerprint-based criminal-history record checks can be forwarded to the FBI through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, enabling participation in interstate licensing compacts.
The Business, Labor & Employment Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 146, a broadly scoped cleanup bill that revises multiple statutes so fingerprint-based criminal-history record checks can be processed through the FBI via the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Sponsors said the draft preserves existing licensing requirements but rewords statutes to meet stringent FBI criteria that govern when a state may submit fingerprints for federal checks. Joel Malekar, legislative…
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