By: Ratliff S.B. No. 964
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to criminal history record information on persons licensed
1-2 by certain agencies.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Article 60.061, Code of Criminal
1-5 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The Department of Public Safety shall perform at least
1-7 yearly [monthly] a computer match of the licensing list against the
1-8 convictions maintained in the computerized criminal history system.
1-9 The Department of Public Safety shall report to the appropriate
1-10 licensing agency for verification and administrative action, as
1-11 considered appropriate by the licensing agency, the name of any
1-12 person found to have a record of conviction, except a defendant
1-13 whose prosecution is deferred during a period of community
1-14 supervision without an adjudication or plea of guilt. The
1-15 Department of Public Safety may charge the licensing agency a fee
1-16 for each computer match performed under this subsection. The fee
1-17 shall be in the amount prescribed by Section 411.088, Government
1-18 Code, for processing an inquiry for criminal history record
1-19 information.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.