By: Ellis S.B. No. 409
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the obtaining of criminal conviction record information
1-2 by the Texas Rehabilitation Commission.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 111.058, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 111.058. CRIMINAL CONVICTION <HISTORY> RECORD
1-7 INFORMATION. (a) The commission may obtain criminal conviction
1-8 <history> record information from the pardons and paroles division
1-9 and institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal
1-10 Justice <Board of Pardons and Paroles, Texas Department of
1-11 Corrections,> and from the Texas Department of Public Safety if the
1-12 conviction records relate to:
1-13 (1) an applicant selected for employment with the
1-14 commission that would place that person in direct contact with
1-15 persons with disabilities;
1-16 (2) an applicant for rehabilitation services; or
1-17 (3) <to> a client of the commission <agency>.
1-18 (b) The pardons and paroles division and institutional
1-19 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice <Board of
1-20 Pardons and Paroles, Texas Department of Corrections,> and the
1-21 Texas Department of Public Safety upon request shall supply to the
1-22 commission criminal conviction <history> record information
1-23 relating <applying> to applicants selected for employment with the
2-1 commission, applicants for rehabilitation services, or clients of
2-2 the commission. The commission shall treat all criminal conviction
2-3 <history> record information as privileged and confidential and for
2-4 commission use only.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.