By Allen                                              H.B. No. 2428
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to criminal history record information maintained by and
    1-3  disseminated from the Department of Public Safety.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subsections (3) and (4), Section 411.082,
    1-6  Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, are amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8              (3)  "Criminal justice agency" means:
    1-9                    (A)  a <federal or state> government agency or, any
   1-10  subunit thereof, that is engaged in the administration of criminal
   1-11  justice under a statute or executive order and that allocates a
   1-12  substantial portion of its annual budget to the administration of
   1-13  criminal justice; or
   1-14                    (B)  a nongovernmental railroad or campus police
   1-15  department that has obtained an originating agency identifier from
   1-16  the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
   1-17                    (C)  courts.
   1-18              (4)  "Criminal justice purpose" means:
   1-19                    (A)  an activity by a criminal justice agency
   1-20  that is included in the administration of criminal justice; or
   1-21                    (B)  screening of applicants for employment with
   1-22  a criminal justice agency.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 411.089, Subchapter F, Chapter 411,
    2-1  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
    2-2        (a)  A criminal justice agency is entitled to obtain from the
    2-3  department any criminal history record information maintained by
    2-4  the department about a person.
    2-5        (b)  Criminal history record information obtained under
    2-6  subsection (a) may be used by the criminal justice agency for
    2-7  criminal justice purposes.
    2-8        (c)  Criminal history record information obtained under
    2-9  subsection (a) may be released by the criminal justice agency:
   2-10              (1)  <to any criminal justice agency,> if such release is
   2-11  for a criminal justice purpose; <and> or
   2-12              (2)  through audio response terminals and radio
   2-13  devices, whether digital or voice, if such dissemination is in
   2-14  accordance with rules promulgated by the department.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  Section 411.124, Subchapter F, Chapter 411,
   2-16  Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as
   2-17  follows:
   2-18        (c)  A criminal justice agency may provide the
   2-19  record-of-conviction information obtained from the department to
   2-20  any political subdivision that either employs or has the duty and
   2-21  responsibility of licensing and regulating drivers of public
   2-22  transportation vehicles.
   2-23        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-24        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-1  emergency and imperative public necessity that the constitutional
    3-2  rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house
    3-3  be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.