By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 118
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to a municipality's access to criminal history record
    1-2  information about applicants for employment.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 411.128 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 411.128.  ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION:
    1-7  EMPLOYMENT BY MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection
    1-8  (b), a municipality is entitled to obtain from the department
    1-9  criminal history record information maintained by the department
   1-10  that relates to a person who is an applicant for employment by the
   1-11  municipality.
   1-12        (b)  A municipality is not entitled to obtain under this
   1-13  section any information about a person if the municipality is
   1-14  entitled to obtain under another section of this subchapter any
   1-15  criminal history record information about the person.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.