1-1 By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 912 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999; 1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; May 10, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to access to criminal history record information by a 1-9 domestic relations office for a social study or a commissioners 1-10 court for a county child welfare board member. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Sections 411.1285 and 411.1286 to read as 1-14 follows: 1-15 Sec. 411.1285. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD 1-16 INFORMATION: DOMESTIC RELATIONS OFFICE. (a) A domestic relations 1-17 office created under Chapter 203, Family Code, is entitled to 1-18 obtain from the department criminal history record information that 1-19 relates to a person who is a subject of a social study under 1-20 Subchapter D, Chapter 107, Family Code. 1-21 (b) The department shall provide the domestic relations 1-22 office with criminal history record information not later than the 1-23 10th day after the date on which the criminal history record 1-24 information is requested. 1-25 (c) Criminal history record information requested under this 1-26 section, including information included in a report of a social 1-27 study filed under Section 107.054, Family Code, may not be released 1-28 or disclosed by a domestic relations office to a person other than 1-29 the court ordering the social study except on court order or with 1-30 the consent of the person who is the subject of the criminal 1-31 history record information. 1-32 Sec. 411.1286. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD 1-33 INFORMATION: COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURTS; COUNTY CHILD WELFARE 1-34 BOARD MEMBERS. The commissioners court of a county is entitled to 1-35 obtain from the department criminal history record information 1-36 maintained by the department that relates to a member of a county 1-37 child welfare board appointed by the commissioners court under 1-38 Section 264.005, Family Code. 1-39 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-40 applies only to a social study ordered on or after that date. A 1-41 social study ordered before the effective date of this Act is 1-42 governed by the law in effect on the date the social study was 1-43 ordered, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-44 purpose. 1-45 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-50 * * * * *