By Brimer H.B. No. 220 74R1001 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to municipal access to criminal history record information 1-3 about applicants for employment. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 411.128 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 411.128. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION: 1-8 EMPLOYMENT BY MUNICIPALITY. (a) Except as provided by Subsection 1-9 (b), a municipality is entitled to obtain from the department 1-10 criminal history record information maintained by the department 1-11 that relates to a person who is an applicant for employment by the 1-12 municipality. 1-13 (b) A municipality is not entitled to obtain under this 1-14 section any information about a person if the municipality is 1-15 entitled to obtain under another section of this subchapter any 1-16 criminal history record information about the person. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.