S. 2882: A bill to make the program for national criminal history background checks for volunteer groups permanent.
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S. 2882: A bill to make the program for national criminal history background checks for volunteer groups permanent.
108th Congress · introduced 2004-10-01 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2004-10-01 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
A bill to make the program for national criminal history background checks for volunteer groups permanent.
Plain summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (PROTECT Act) to eliminate the limit (18 months) on the duration of the Child Safety Pilot Program (provides for the processing of 100,000 10-fingerprint check requests from specified volunteer organizations through the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System).
Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate without amendment), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
A bill to make the program for national criminal history background checks for volunteer groups permanent.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate without amendment)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · 1 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate without amendment)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-108s2882.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/108/s>
Record fed-us-cong108-s2882 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108