By Harris of Tarrant                                   S.B. No. 118
       74R1001 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to municipal access to criminal history record information
    1-3  about applicants for employment.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 411.128 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 411.128.  ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION:
    1-8  EMPLOYMENT BY MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection
    1-9  (b), a municipality is entitled to obtain from the department
   1-10  criminal history record information maintained by the department
   1-11  that relates to a person who is an applicant for employment by the
   1-12  municipality.
   1-13        (b)  A municipality is not entitled to obtain under this
   1-14  section any information about a person if the municipality is
   1-15  entitled to obtain under another section of this subchapter any
   1-16  criminal history record information about the person.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.