By Ratliff S.B. No. 964
75R6867 KEL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to criminal history record information on persons licensed
1-3 by certain agencies.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 60.061(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The Department of Public Safety shall perform at least
1-8 yearly [monthly] a computer match of the licensing list against the
1-9 convictions maintained in the computerized criminal history system.
1-10 The Department of Public Safety shall report to the appropriate
1-11 licensing agency for verification and administrative action, as
1-12 considered appropriate by the licensing agency, the name of any
1-13 person found to have a record of conviction, except a defendant
1-14 whose prosecution is deferred during a period of community
1-15 supervision without an adjudication or plea of guilt. The
1-16 Department of Public Safety may charge the licensing agency a fee
1-17 for each computer match performed under this subsection. The fee
1-18 shall be in the amount prescribed by Section 411.088, Government
1-19 Code, for processing an inquiry for criminal history record
1-20 information.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 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.