By:  Whitmire                                         S.B. No. 1605
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to access to criminal history record information by a
 1-2     domestic relations office.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 411.1285 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 411.1285.  ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD
 1-7     INFORMATION:  DOMESTIC RELATIONS OFFICE.  (a)  A domestic relations
 1-8     office created under Chapter 203, Family Code, is entitled to
 1-9     obtain from the department criminal history record information that
1-10     relates to a person who is a subject of a social study under
1-11     Subchapter D, Chapter 107, Family Code.
1-12           (b)  The department shall provide the domestic relations
1-13     office with criminal history record information not later than the
1-14     10th day after the date on which the criminal history record
1-15     information is requested.
1-16           (c)  Criminal history record information requested under this
1-17     section, including information included in a report of a social
1-18     study filed under Section 107.054, Family Code, may not be released
1-19     or disclosed by a domestic relations office to a person other than
1-20     the court ordering the social study except on court order or with
1-21     the consent of the person who is the subject of the criminal
1-22     history record information.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
 2-2     applies only to a social study ordered on or after that date.  A
 2-3     social study ordered before the effective date of this Act is
 2-4     governed by the law in effect on the date the social study was
 2-5     ordered, and the former law is continued in effect for that
 2-6     purpose.
 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.