By:  Davila                                           H.B. No. 1783
       73R4818 JRD-D
                                 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.