By Carona                                             H.B. No. 1298
       74R4431 DWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to access to criminal history record information by the
    1-3  banking commissioner.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 411.092(a), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The banking commissioner is entitled to obtain from the
    1-8  department criminal history record information maintained by the
    1-9  department that relates to a person who is:
   1-10              (1)  an applicant for a license, charter, or other
   1-11  authority granted or issued by the banking commissioner under:
   1-12                    (A)  The Texas Banking Code (Article 342-101 et
   1-13  seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or any successor to that law;
   1-14                    (B)  Article 350, Revised Statutes;
   1-15                    (C)  The Sale of Checks Act (Article 489d,
   1-16  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
   1-17                    (D)  Chapter 512, Acts of the 54th Legislature,
   1-18  Regular Session, 1955 (Article 548b, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-19  Statutes); or
   1-20                    (E)  Chapter 712, Health and Safety Code; or
   1-21              (2)  a principal of an applicant under Subdivision (1)
   1-22  <for a license under that article>.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  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,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.
    2-6                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-7        Amend H.B. No. 1298 on page 1 by striking line 20.
    2-8                                                             Marchant