AN ACT
 1-1     relating to access to criminal history record information by a
 1-2     political subdivision for certain background checks.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 411.124, Government Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A political subdivision of this state that employs,
 1-7     licenses, or regulates drivers of public transportation vehicles is
 1-8     entitled to obtain from the department or from a law enforcement
 1-9     agency of the political subdivision with access to the information
1-10     the criminal history record information maintained by the
1-11     department that relates to a person who is:
1-12                 (1)  the driver of a public transportation vehicle; and
1-13                 (2)  employed, licensed, or regulated by the political
1-14     subdivision.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 383 passed the Senate on
         March 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0, one
         present not voting.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 383 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor