Title 12, Banks and BankingRelease 119-110
§5110 Background Checks of Loan Originators
Title 12 › CHAPTER 51 — SECURE AND FAIR ENFORCEMENT FOR MORTGAGE LICENSING › § 5110
Summary
The Attorney General must give state officials who license loan originators and similar financial workers access to all criminal history records when state law requires background checks for those licenses. The Conference of State Bank Supervisors, or a wholly owned subsidiary, may act as a single agent to request and share those records between the Justice Department/FBI and the states.
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Title 12, §5110
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(a)Access to records
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in providing identification and processing functions, the Attorney General shall provide access to all criminal history information to the appropriate State officials responsible for regulating State-licensed loan originators and other financial service providers to the extent criminal history background checks are required under the laws of the State for the licensing of such loan originators or other financial service providers.
(b)Agent
For the purposes of this section and in order to reduce the points of contact which the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have to maintain for purposes of subsection (a), the Conference of State Bank Supervisors or a wholly owned subsidiary may be used as a channeling agent of the States for requesting and distributing information between the Department of Justice and the appropriate State agencies .
Legislative History
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Amendments
2015—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–94 inserted “and other financial service providers” after “State-licensed loan originators” and “or other financial service providers” before period at end.
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Citation
12 U.S.C. § 5110
Title 12, Banks and Banking
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110