SHARE Act of 2025

This legislation mandates the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide criminal history record information to State licensing authorities. This provision applies to background checks for individuals seeking a license or privilege to practice an occupation or profession in a compact member State, as required by an interstate compact. State licensing authorities are strictly limited in their use of this information, which must be applied solely for the purpose of acting upon a license or privilege . They are explicitly prohibited from sharing the detailed criminal history record information with the compact's Commission, any other State entity, or the public. However, these authorities may inform a compact Commission that a background check was completed, including a binary determination of its satisfactory status, without disclosing the underlying record information.