1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 964
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1997; March 10, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 8, 1997,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0;
1-5 April 8, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to criminal history record information on persons licensed
1-9 by certain agencies.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Article 60.061, Code of Criminal
1-12 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The Department of Public Safety shall perform at least
1-14 yearly [monthly] a computer match of the licensing list against the
1-15 convictions maintained in the computerized criminal history system.
1-16 The Department of Public Safety shall report to the appropriate
1-17 licensing agency for verification and administrative action, as
1-18 considered appropriate by the licensing agency, the name of any
1-19 person found to have a record of conviction, except a defendant
1-20 whose prosecution is deferred during a period of community
1-21 supervision without an adjudication or plea of guilt. The
1-22 Department of Public Safety may charge the licensing agency a fee
1-23 for each computer match performed under this subsection. The fee
1-24 shall be in the amount prescribed by Section 411.088, Government
1-25 Code, for processing an inquiry for criminal history record
1-26 information.
1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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