82R4415 VOO-F

By: Kleinschmidt H.B. No. 584

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to storage of electronic fingerprint records and access to

criminal history record information.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 411.0845, Government Code, is amended by

adding Subsections (l) and (m) to read as follows:

(l) The department shall maintain the electronic

fingerprint record of each person who is the subject of a criminal

history record information request. The person who is the subject

of a criminal history record information request may authorize the

department to forward updated criminal history record information,

including information received from the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, to a person entitled to such information under this

subchapter. After the department receives any fee charged by the

department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the criminal

history record information, the department shall forward the

criminal history record information to the authorized person.

(m) Notwithstanding any other law, a state agency may not

require an individual to submit a completed fingerprint card or an

electronic fingerprint record to obtain the individual's criminal

history record information if the individual has submitted a

completed fingerprint card or an electronic fingerprint record to

the department not more than five years before the date the state

agency requests the individual's criminal history record

information from the department.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2011.