1-1     By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 383
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 3, 1999; February 4, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     February 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
 1-6     February 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 383                   By:  Duncan
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to access to criminal history record information by a
1-11     political subdivision for certain background checks.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 411.124, Government Code,
1-14     is amended to read as follows:
1-15           (a)  A political subdivision of this state that employs,
1-16     licenses, or regulates drivers of public transportation vehicles is
1-17     entitled to obtain from the department or from a law enforcement
1-18     agency of the political subdivision with access to the information
1-19     the criminal history record information maintained by the
1-20     department that relates to a person who is:
1-21                 (1)  the driver of a public transportation vehicle; and
1-22                 (2)  employed, licensed, or regulated by the political
1-23     subdivision.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.
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