By West                                               H.B. No. 1075
       74R4406 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of certain nonprofit charitable
    1-3  organizations to obtain certain criminal history record information
    1-4  from the Department of Public Safety.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 411.114(a)(2), Government Code, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8              (2)  The Department of Protective and Regulatory
    1-9  Services is entitled to obtain from the department criminal history
   1-10  record information maintained by the department that relates to a
   1-11  person who is:
   1-12                    (A)  an applicant for a license, registration, or
   1-13  certification under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code;
   1-14                    (B)  an owner or employee of or an applicant for
   1-15  employment by a child-care facility licensed, registered, or
   1-16  certified under that chapter;
   1-17                    (C)  a resident of a registered family home, but
   1-18  not a child in the home's care or a parent of the child;
   1-19                    (D)  an applicant for a position with the
   1-20  Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, the duties of
   1-21  which include direct delivery of protective services to children,
   1-22  elderly persons, or persons with a disability;
   1-23                    (E)  a volunteer or applicant volunteer with a
   1-24  local affiliate in this state of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of
    2-1  America;
    2-2                    (F)  a volunteer or applicant volunteer with the
    2-3  "I Have a Dream/Houston" program;
    2-4                    (G)  an employee of a business entity that
    2-5  provides in-home respite care of children with temporary illnesses;
    2-6                    (H)  an employee of a home health agency;
    2-7                    (I)  a volunteer or applicant volunteer with an
    2-8  organization that provides court-appointed special advocates for
    2-9  abused or neglected children;
   2-10                    (J)  a person providing or applying to provide
   2-11  adoptive or foster care for children in the care of the Department
   2-12  of Protective and Regulatory Services and other adults living with
   2-13  that person in the residence in which the child will reside;
   2-14                    (K)  a Department of Protective and Regulatory
   2-15  Services employee who is engaged in the direct delivery of
   2-16  protective services to children, elderly persons, or persons with a
   2-17  disability on the date the department implements this section;
   2-18                    (L)  a person who is the subject of a report the
   2-19  department receives alleging that the person has abused or
   2-20  neglected a child, an elderly person, or a person with a
   2-21  disability, provided that report has proven to have merit after
   2-22  investigation; <or>
   2-23                    (M)  a relative providing or applying to provide
   2-24  in-home care for a child in the care of the Department of
   2-25  Protective and Regulatory Services and other adults living with
   2-26  that relative in the residence in which the child will reside; or
   2-27                    (N)  a volunteer or applicant volunteer with a
    3-1  Texas chapter of a nonprofit charitable organization established to
    3-2  grant the wishes of children who are terminally ill and that
    3-3  provides assistance and coordination to other organizations
    3-4  established to grant the wishes of such children.
    3-5        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-11  passage, and it is so enacted.