1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the ability of a county to obtain criminal history
1-3 record information on an applicant for county employment.
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 411.1295 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 411.1295. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD
1-8 INFORMATION: EMPLOYMENT BY COUNTY. (a) Except as provided by
1-9 Subsection (b), a county is entitled to obtain from the department
1-10 criminal history record information maintained by the department
1-11 that relates to a person who is an applicant for employment by the
1-12 county.
1-13 (b) A county is not entitled to obtain under this section
1-14 any information about a person if the county is entitled to obtain
1-15 under another section of this subchapter any criminal history
1-16 record information about the person.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2200 was passed by the House on April
8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2200 was passed by the Senate on May
17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor