1-1 By: Seidlits (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 3017
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
1-3 May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to fees charged by and to records retained by certain law
1-9 enforcement agencies for fingerprinting.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 80.001(b), Human Resources Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) A law enforcement agency may <not> charge a fee not to
1-14 exceed $10 for the service provided under this section and may
1-15 <not> retain records of fingerprints made under this section
1-16 <unless specifically requested to do so by the person requesting
1-17 the service>.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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