1-1 By: Linebarger (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 393
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 1, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; May 4, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 May 4, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Whitmire x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Nelson x
1-12 Sibley x
1-13 Sims x
1-14 Turner x
1-15 West x
1-16 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 393 By: Sibley
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to certain records kept by district clerks and to fees
1-20 charged for certain services performed by district or county
1-21 clerks.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 51.318, Government Code, is amended by
1-24 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-25 (e) The district clerk may not charge the United States
1-26 Immigration and Naturalization Service a fee for a copy of any
1-27 document on file or of record in the clerk's office relating to an
1-28 individual's criminal history, regardless of whether the document
1-29 is certified.
1-30 SECTION 2. Section 118.011, Local Government Code, is
1-31 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-32 (d) The county clerk may not charge the United States
1-33 Immigration and Naturalization Service a fee for a copy of any
1-34 document on file or of record in the clerk's office relating to an
1-35 individual's criminal history, regardless of whether the document
1-36 is certified.
1-37 SECTION 3. Section 51.305, Government Code, is repealed.
1-38 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-44 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-46 Austin,
1-47 Texas
1-48 May 4, 1993
1-49 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-50 President of the Senate
1-51 Sir:
1-52 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
1-53 No. 393, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-54 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-55 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
1-56 do pass and be printed.
1-57 Whitmire,
1-58 Chairman
1-59 * * * * *
1-60 WITNESSES
1-61 FOR AGAINST ON
1-62 ___________________________________________________________________
1-63 Name: Ellis Gilleland x
1-64 Representing: Self
1-65 City: Austin
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1-67 Name: W. H. Moore x
1-68 Representing: County and District Clerks
2-1 City: San Marcos
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