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Senate Bill 1044 |
Senate Author: Rodriguez |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
House Sponsor: Walle et al. |
Senate Bill 1044 amends the Government Code to entitle the office of capital writs and a public defender's office to obtain from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) criminal history record information maintained by DPS that relates to a criminal case in which an attorney compensated by the office has been appointed and to prohibit DPS from charging a fee for providing the information to those entities. The bill entitles a local government corporation created for governmental purposes relating to criminal identification activities that allocates a substantial part of its annual budget to those activities to obtain from DPS criminal history record information maintained by DPS that relates to an employee, consultant, intern, or volunteer of the corporation, an applicant for such a position, a person who proposes to enter into a contract with or has a contract with the corporation, or an employee or subcontractor or an applicant to be an employee or subcontractor of a contractor. The bill prohibits the release or disclosure of that criminal history record information obtained by a local government corporation except on court order or with the consent of the person who is the subject of the information.