NU Online News Service, May 3, 10:49 a.m.EDT--The National Association of Insurance Commissionerswill begin a pilot program this week with five states to storeelectronic fingerprints of licensed insurance producers.

NAIC announced that the criteria for being involved in the pilotis that the state currently conducts electronic background checkson insurance producers and has enabling authority to access theFBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System(IAFIS) and Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) database.Pilot states include Alaska, California, Idaho, New York andPennsylvania.

Participating states use FBI certified firms to verify theauthenticity of the prints submitted and then transmit theproducers' electronic fingerprints to their insurance departmentsand appropriate state law enforcement entities.

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