1-1 By: Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 2200 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999; 1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the ability of a county to obtain criminal history 1-9 record information on an applicant for county employment. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 411.1295 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 411.1295. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD 1-14 INFORMATION: EMPLOYMENT BY COUNTY. (a) Except as provided by 1-15 Subsection (b), a county is entitled to obtain from the department 1-16 criminal history record information maintained by the department 1-17 that relates to a person who is an applicant for employment by the 1-18 county. 1-19 (b) A county is not entitled to obtain under this section 1-20 any information about a person if the county is entitled to obtain 1-21 under another section of this subchapter any criminal history 1-22 record information about the person. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-29 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-30 * * * * *