By Farrar H.B. No. 1293 76R5572 MDR-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to access to criminal history record information for the 1-3 Harris County Hospital District. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 411.136 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 411.136. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION: 1-8 HARRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT. (a) The Harris County Hospital 1-9 District is entitled to obtain from the department criminal history 1-10 record information maintained by the department that relates to a 1-11 person who is: 1-12 (1) an applicant for employment or a volunteer 1-13 position with the district; 1-14 (2) an employee of or volunteer with the district; or 1-15 (3) an applicant for employment with or an employee of 1-16 a person or business that contracts with the district. 1-17 (b) The district shall adopt a uniform method to obtain 1-18 criminal history information from persons described by Subsection 1-19 (a). The district may require the complete name, driver's license 1-20 number, fingerprints, or social security number of those persons. 1-21 (c) The district may dismiss a person or deny a person 1-22 employment or a volunteer position or refuse to allow a person to 1-23 work in a district facility if: 1-24 (1) the person fails or refuses to provide information 2-1 described by Subsection (b); or 2-2 (2) the person's criminal history record information 2-3 reveals a conviction that renders the person unqualified or 2-4 unsuitable for employment or a volunteer position. 2-5 (d) All criminal history record information received by the 2-6 district under this section is privileged, confidential, and 2-7 intended for the exclusive use of the district. The district may 2-8 not release or disclose criminal history record information to any 2-9 person or agency except in a criminal proceeding, in a hearing 2-10 conducted by the district, to another governmental entity as 2-11 required by law, or as required by court order. 2-12 (e) The district shall develop procedures for the custody 2-13 and use of information obtained under this section. After use of 2-14 the information, the district administrator or the administrator's 2-15 designee shall destroy the information in accordance with the 2-16 district's document destruction procedures. 2-17 (f) The district, a member of the board of managers of the 2-18 district, or an employee of the district is not civilly liable for 2-19 failure to comply with this chapter if the district makes a 2-20 good-faith effort to comply. 2-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.