By Goodman H.B. No. 1825 75R7035 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to access to criminal history record information by the 1-3 State Bar of Texas. 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 411.135 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 411.135. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION: 1-8 STATE BAR OF TEXAS. (a) The State Bar of Texas is entitled to 1-9 obtain from the department criminal history record information 1-10 maintained by the department that relates to a person who is: 1-11 (1) a person licensed by the state bar and who is the 1-12 subject of or involved in an investigation of: 1-13 (A) professional misconduct relating to a 1-14 grievance filed under the disciplinary rules of the state bar; or 1-15 (B) barratry, the unauthorized practice of law, 1-16 or falsely holding oneself out as a lawyer, in violation of Section 1-17 38.12, 38.122, or 38.123, Penal Code; 1-18 (2) a witness in any disciplinary action or proceeding 1-19 conducted by the state bar, the Board of Disciplinary Appeals, or 1-20 any court; or 1-21 (3) an applicant for reinstatement to practice law. 1-22 (b) Information received by the state bar is confidential 1-23 and may be disseminated only in a disciplinary action or proceeding 1-24 conducted by the state bar, the Board of Disciplinary Appeals, or 2-1 any court. 2-2 (c) The state bar shall destroy criminal history record 2-3 information obtained under this section promptly after a final 2-4 determination is made in the matter for which the information was 2-5 obtained. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted. 2-13 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-14 Amend H.B. 1825 as follows: 2-15 (1) On page 1, on line 8 after (a) The, insert the 2-16 following: General Counsel of the. 2-17 Haggerty