ACCESS TO CRIMINAL RECORDS.

SEC. 114. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL RECORDS. Section 9101 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsections (b)(1), (b)(3)(A), (b)(3)(B), and (c) by inserting “the Department of State,” after “Defense,” each place it appears; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(e) The authority provided under this section with respect to the Department of State may be exercised only so long as the Department of State continues to extend to its employees and applicants for employment, at a minimum, those procedural safeguards provided for as part of the security clearance process that were made available, as of May 1, 1987, pursuant to section 163.4 of volume 3 of the Foreign Affairs Manual.”.