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Amend CSHB 1303 (Senate committee report) in SECTION 7 of the 
bill by striking added Subsection (b), Section 411.0851, Government 
Code (page 5, lines 33-41), and substituting the following:
	(b)  Unless the entity is regulated by the federal Fair 
Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1681 et seq.) or the 
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. Sections 6801 to 6809), a private 
entity described by Subsection (a) that purchases criminal history 
record information from the department or from another governmental 
agency or entity in this state:
		(1)  may disseminate that information only if, within 
the 90-day period preceding the date of dissemination, the entity:
			(A)  originally obtains that information; or                          
			(B)  receives that information as updated record 
information to its database; and
		(2)  shall notify the department if the entity sells 
any compilation of the information to another similar entity.