By Allen                                              H.B. No. 2910
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain criminal background checks regarding applicants
    1-3  for and holders of certain persons under the Private Investigators
    1-4  and Private Security Agencies Act.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 411.119, Government Code, is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 411.119.  Access to Criminal History Record Information:
    1-9  Texas Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies.
   1-10  (a)  The Texas Board of Private Investigators and Private Security
   1-11  Agencies is entitled to obtain from the department criminal history
   1-12  record information maintained by the department that relates to a
   1-13  person who is:
   1-14              (1)  an applicant for a license, registration, or
   1-15  security officer commission under the Private Investigators and
   1-16  Private Security Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas
   1-17  Civil Statutes); (or)
   1-18              (2)  an applicant for a position regulated under that
   1-19  Act; or
   1-20              (3)  the holder of a license under that Act.
   1-21        (b)  In addition to information obtained from the Federal
   1-22  Bureau of Investigation under Section 411.087, the Texas Board of
   1-23  Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies is entitled to
    2-1  obtain information relating to the wanted persons status of a
    2-2  license applicant or license holder.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
    2-4  amended by adding Section 411.1195 to read as follows:
    2-5        Sec. 411.1195.  ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD
    2-6  INFORMATION:  PERSONS WHO EMPLOY PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AND PRIVATE
    2-7  SECURITY OFFICERS.  (a)  The governing body of a business entity
    2-8  that employs a person licensed or registered by the Texas Board of
    2-9  Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies is entitled to
   2-10  obtain from the department criminal history record information
   2-11  maintained by the department that relates to a person who is:
   2-12              (1)  an applicant for a license, registration, or
   2-13  security officer commission under the Private Investigators and
   2-14  Private Security Agencies Act (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas
   2-15  Civil Statutes); or
   2-16              (2)  an employee who holds a license issued under that
   2-17  Act.
   2-18        (b)  In addition to information obtained from the Federal
   2-19  Bureau of Investigation under Section 411.087, the governing body
   2-20  of the business entity is entitled to obtain information relating
   2-21  to the wanted persons status of an individual described by
   2-22  Subsection (a)(1) or (2).
   2-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-4  passage, and it is so enacted.