By: Brown S.B. No. 111 73R1143 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a volunteer fire department to obtain 1-3 from the Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement 1-4 agencies the criminal conviction record of a volunteer fire 1-5 department applicant. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Section 3, Article 6252-13c, Revised Statutes, is 1-8 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-9 (d) The chief executive officer of a volunteer fire 1-10 department may obtain from the Department of Public Safety or a 1-11 local law enforcement agency the conviction record of a person 1-12 applying for membership in the volunteer fire department. The 1-13 information obtained under this subsection is for the exclusive use 1-14 of the volunteer fire department and is privileged and 1-15 confidential. In this subsection, "volunteer fire department" 1-16 means an association that: 1-17 (1) operates fire-fighting equipment; 1-18 (2) is organized primarily to provide and actively 1-19 provides fire-fighting services; and 1-20 (3) does not pay its members compensation other than 1-21 nominal compensation. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.