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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