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.