By Hunter of Taylor                                   H.B. No. 1052
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the obtaining of criminal conviction record information
    1-3  by the Texas Rehabilitation Commission.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 111.058, Human Resources Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 111.058.  CRIMINAL CONVICTION <HISTORY> RECORD
    1-8  INFORMATION.  (a)  The commission may obtain criminal conviction
    1-9  <history> record information from the pardons and paroles division
   1-10  and institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal
   1-11  Justice <Board of Pardons and Paroles, Texas Department of
   1-12  Corrections,> and from the Texas Department of Public Safety if the
   1-13  conviction records relate to:
   1-14              (1)  an applicant selected for employment with the
   1-15  commission that would place that person in direct contact with
   1-16  persons with disabilities;
   1-17              (2)  an applicant for rehabilitation services;  or
   1-18              (3)  <to> a client of the commission <agency>.
   1-19        (b)  The pardons and paroles division and institutional
   1-20  division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice <Board of
   1-21  Pardons and Paroles, Texas Department of Corrections,> and the
   1-22  Texas Department of Public Safety upon request shall supply to the
   1-23  commission criminal conviction <history> record information
    2-1  relating <applying> to applicants selected for employment with the
    2-2  commission, applicants for rehabilitation services, or clients of
    2-3  the commission.  The commission shall treat all criminal conviction
    2-4  <history> record information as privileged and confidential and for
    2-5  commission use only.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.