H.B. No. 1181




AN ACT

relating to access to criminal history record information by a 
domestic relations office.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 411.1285(a), Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(a)  A domestic relations office created under Chapter 203, 
Family Code, is entitled to obtain from the department criminal 
history record information that relates to a person who is a party 
to a proceeding in which the domestic relations office has been:
		(1)  appointed guardian ad litem for a child; or                       
		(2)  ordered to conduct [subject of] a social study 
under Subchapter D, Chapter 107, Family Code.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a 
suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending in a trial 
court on or filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1181 was passed by the House on May 9, 
2005, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1181 was passed by the Senate on May 
25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor