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States with FCRA Criminal Reporting Provisions

California

CA Civil Code (Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act) 1785.13.6 – Conviction
Records — A consumer credit reporting agency shall not report records of arrest, indictment, information, misdemeanor complaint, or conviction of a crime that, from the date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by seven years. These items of information shall no longer be reported if it is learned in the case of a conviction that a full pardon has been granted or in the case of an arrest, indictment, information, or misdemeanor complaint a conviction did not result. The provisions of subdivision (a) are not applicable in the case of any investigative consumer report to be used in the employment of any individual at an annual salary that equals or may reasonably be expected to equal, seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) or more.


Colorado

CRS 12-14.3-105.3
No consumer credit reporting agency may report records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years. This does not apply to the case of any consumer report to be used in connection with the employment of an individual at an annual salary that equals or is reasonably expected to equal seventy-five thousand dollars or more.


Kansas

KS 50-704
No consumer credit reporting agency may report records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years. The provisions are not applicable in the case of any consumer credit report to be used in connection with the employment of any individual at an annual salary which equals, or which may reasonably be expected to equal twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), or more.


Kentucky

KRS 367.310
No consumer reporting agency shall maintain any information in its files relating to any charge in a criminal case, in any court of this Commonwealth, unless the charge has resulted in a conviction.


Maryland

Code of MD 14-1203
No consumer credit reporting agency may report records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years. The provisions are not applicable in the case of any consumer credit report to be used in connection with the employment of any individual at an annual salary which equals, or which may reasonably be expected to equal, $20,000 or more.


Massachusetts

MGL/93-52
No consumer credit reporting agency may report records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years.


Montana

MCA 31-3-112
No consumer credit reporting agency may report records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years.


Nevada

NRS 598C.150-2
Except as otherwise provided by a specific statute, any other civil judgment, a report of criminal convictions, pending cases, or other adverse information is limited to a 7 year search.


New Hampshire

HRS 359-B:5
No consumer credit reporting agency may report records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years. The provisions are not applicable in the case of any consumer credit report to be used in connection with the employment of any individual at an annual salary which equals, or which may reasonably be expected to equal, $20,000 or more.


New Mexico

NM Statute 56-3-6
"Credit bureaus" cannot report arrests and indictments pending trial, or convictions of crimes, after seven years from date of release or parole. Such items cannot be reported if at any time it is learned that after a conviction a full pardon has been granted, or after an arrest or indictment a conviction did not result. Note: "Credit bureau" is defined as "Any business engaged in furnishing credit information about consumers".


New York

CONSUMER CREDIT REPORTING AGENCY , Article 25 Section 380-j
Prohibited Information.  (a) No consumer reporting agency shall report or maintain in the file on a consumer, information relative to an arrest or a criminal charge unless there has been a criminal conviction for such offense, or unless such charges are still pending.
(b) A consumer credit reporting agency can report information about a detention of an individual by a retail establishment if the individual has admitted wrongdoing, has received notice that the information will be reported to a consumer credit reporting agency and may be further reported to a retail establishment for employment purposes.  
(f) No consumer credit reporting agency may make any consumer report containing records of convictions which, from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years.


Texas

Business & Commerce Code, Chapter 20, §20.05
No consumer credit reporting agency may report "records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years.


Washington

RCW 19.182.040
No consumer credit reporting agency may report "records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of crime, which from date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years.