By Hilbert H.B. No. 3156
75R8095 BEM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to criminal history checks for emergency medical service
1-3 personnel.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 773.070, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 773.070. [ACCESS TO CERTAIN] CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD
1-8 CHECK REQUIRED [INFORMATION]. (a) The department shall obtain
1-9 criminal history record information under Section 411.110,
1-10 Government Code, for each applicant for licensure or certification
1-11 or renewal of licensure or certification under this chapter.
1-12 (b) The department shall enter into an agreement with the
1-13 Department of Public Safety providing for expedited processing of
1-14 criminal history record checks under this section.
1-15 (c) In addition to any fee for licensure or certification
1-16 under this chapter, each applicant for licensure or certification
1-17 or renewal of licensure or certification shall pay $5 to the
1-18 department to defray the cost of obtaining the applicant's criminal
1-19 history record information.
1-20 (d) [(e)] The board may deny licensure or certification to
1-21 an applicant who does not provide a complete set of [the required]
1-22 fingerprints required for obtaining criminal history record
1-23 information.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
2-1 applies only to an application for a license or certificate or an
2-2 application to renew a license or certificate made on or after that
2-3 date. An application made before the effective date of this Act is
2-4 governed by the law in effect at the time the application was made,
2-5 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-6 SECTION 3. 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.