By Ratliff                                       S.B. No. 964

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                                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.