H.B. No. 393
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain records kept by district clerks and to fees
    1-3  charged for certain services performed by district or county
    1-4  clerks.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 51.318, Government Code, is amended by
    1-7  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-8        (e)  The district clerk may not charge the United States
    1-9  Immigration and Naturalization Service a fee for a copy of any
   1-10  document on file or of record in the clerk's office relating to an
   1-11  individual's criminal history, regardless of whether the document
   1-12  is certified.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 118.011, Local Government Code, is
   1-14  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-15        (d)  The county clerk may not charge the United States
   1-16  Immigration and Naturalization Service a fee for a copy of any
   1-17  document on file or of record in the clerk's office relating to an
   1-18  individual's criminal history, regardless of whether the document
   1-19  is certified.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  Section 51.305, Government Code, is repealed.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.