Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 912 amends the Government Code to authorize a domestic relations office to obtain from the Department of Public Safety criminal history information about a person for whom it is completing a social study and requires the department to provide the information within 10 days of receiving the request. The act requires the domestic relations office to keep confidential all information obtained from the department except on court order or by consent of the person who is the subject of the information. The act permits the commissioners court of a county to obtain criminal history information from the department relating to a person appointed by the commissioners court to the county child welfare board.