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H.R. 695, Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017 1 (April 6, 2017)

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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                               COST ESTIMATE

                                                                     April 6, 2017



                                   H.R.   695
                 Child Protection   Improvements Act of 2017

   As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 22, 2017


Under current law, organizations in certain states that provide services to youth, the
elderly, and the disabled have limited access to information from national criminal
background checks. (Those organizations typically review the backgrounds of
prospective coaches, employees, and volunteers.) H.R. 695 would require the Department
of Justice (DOJ) to establish a program to allow such organizations to obtain information
from criminal background checks in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fingerprint
database.

Based on an analysis of information from DOJ, CBO estimates that implementing the
new program  would cost less than $500,000 annually; any such spending would be
subject to the availability of appropriated funds. In addition, the bill would result in more
background checks carried out by the FBI. The FBI collects fees to cover its costs for
those checks; the fees are classified as offsetting collections and are credited to the
agency's salaries and expenses appropriation. CBO estimates that the collection and
spending of additional fees under H.R. 695 would have no significant net effect on
discretionary spending in any year.

Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go
procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 695 would not increase net
direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods
beginning in 2028.

H.R. 695 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded  Mandates Reform Act.

The CBO  staff contact for this estimate is Mark Grabowicz. The estimate was approved
by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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