Extends the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board's life from 7 years to 11 years, lets the Board repay state and local governments for copying or mailing records sent to the National Archives, and removes an exception that let state and local governments withhold civil rights cold case records.

• Changes the Review Board's term from 7 years to 11 years, with the 7-year period becoming an 11-year period
• Allows the Review Board to fully reimburse state or local governments for digitizing, photocopying, or mailing civil rights cold case records to the Archivist
• Removes the exception for state and local governments in the rule requiring transmission of civil rights cold case records to the Collection
• Declares it the sense of Congress that civil rights cold case records should carry a presumption of immediate disclosure and eventually be disclosed
• Excludes information in civil rights cold case records created on or before January 1, 1990 from the privacy exemption in section 552(b)(6)

• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)

Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues