By:  Solomons (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)                        H.B. No. 1166
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2003; 
May 7, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Government Organization; May 23, 2003, reported favorably by the 
following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)


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.                           



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