79R4322 JMM-F
By: Dutton, et al. H.B. No. 1181
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to access to criminal history record information by a
domestic relations office.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 411.1285(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A domestic relations office created under Chapter 203,
Family Code, is entitled to obtain from the department criminal
history record information that relates to a person who is a party
to a proceeding in which the domestic relations office has been:
(1) appointed guardian ad litem for a child; or
(2) ordered to conduct [subject of] a social study
under Subchapter D, Chapter 107, Family Code.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending in a trial
court on or filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.