78R10643 MXM-F
By: Solomons H.B. No. 1166
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1166:
By: Madden C.S.H.B. No. 1166
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the on-line information needs and requirements of
licensing agencies and their license holders.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 2054, Government Code, as
added by Chapter 353, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2001, is amended by adding Sections 2054.255 and 2054.256
to read as follows:
Sec. 2054.255. CHANGE OF ADDRESS AND OTHER INFORMATION.
(a) The system adopted under Section 2054.253, as added by Chapter
353, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, must
allow a person regulated by one or more licensing authorities to
file a single change of address on-line with the department. The
department shall provide the new address to each appropriate
licensing authority.
(b) The department may expand the system to include
additional categories of updated information that license holders
may need to provide to more than one licensing authority.
(c) If the department uses TexasOnline to implement the
system, the department may recover costs incurred under this
section as provided by Section 2054.252, as added by Chapter 342,
Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001.
Sec. 2054.256. SHARING OF INFORMATION. (a) Each licensing
authority shall electronically share information regarding license
holders, especially information regarding disciplinary
information, with other licensing authorities to the extent it is
feasible to do so and allowed by other law, under appropriate
controls for the privacy, security, accuracy, and, when applicable,
confidentiality of the information.
(b) A licensing authority may only use information it
receives electronically under this section for regulatory
purposes.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.