1-1  By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 118
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed December 5, 1994; January 16, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to a municipality's access to criminal history record
    1-9  information about applicants for employment.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Section 411.128 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 411.128.  ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION:
   1-14  EMPLOYMENT BY MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection
   1-15  (b), a municipality is entitled to obtain from the department
   1-16  criminal history record information maintained by the department
   1-17  that relates to a person who is an applicant for employment by the
   1-18  municipality.
   1-19        (b)  A municipality is not entitled to obtain under this
   1-20  section any information about a person if the municipality is
   1-21  entitled to obtain under another section of this subchapter any
   1-22  criminal history record information about the person.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-28  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-29  passage, and it is so enacted.
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