73R4818 JRD-D By Davila H.B. No. 1783 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the attorney general to receive 1-3 criminal history information from the Department of Public Safety 1-4 about certain applicants for employment. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 76, Human Resources Code, is amended by 1-7 adding Section 76.010 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 76.010. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD 1-9 INFORMATION: APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT. (a) The attorney general 1-10 is entitled to obtain from the Department of Public Safety criminal 1-11 history record information maintained by the department that 1-12 relates to a person who is an applicant for a position of 1-13 employment with the attorney general that involves the performance 1-14 of duties under this chapter. The attorney general may not request 1-15 the information unless a supervisory employee of the attorney 1-16 general's office has recommended that the applicant be hired. 1-17 (b) Criminal history record information obtained by the 1-18 attorney general under Subsection (a) may not be released or 1-19 disclosed to any person except on court order, with the consent of 1-20 the person who is the subject of the criminal history record 1-21 information, or the person who is the subject of the criminal 1-22 history record information. 1-23 (c) The attorney general shall destroy criminal history 1-24 record information that relates to a person after the information 2-1 is used for its authorized purpose. 2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.