By: Pacheco H.B. No. 8
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to access by a hiring law enforcement agency to an
  applicant's employment records.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1701.451(a-1), Occupations Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A law enforcement agency that obtains a consent form
  described by Subsection (a)(2)(B) shall make an electronic copy of
  the person's employment records available to a hiring law
  enforcement agency on request.  The commission by rule shall
  prescribe the manner by which a law enforcement agency shall make a
  person's employment records electronically available to a hiring
  law enforcement agency. The rules must provide appropriate privacy
  and security protections.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  Not later than December 1, 2021, the Texas
  Commission on Law Enforcement shall adopt rules as necessary to
  comply with Section 1701.451, Occupations Code, as amended by this
  Act.
         (b)  Section 1701.451, Occupations Code, as amended by this
  Act, applies only to the hiring of a person by a law enforcement
  agency that occurs on or after December 1, 2021. The hiring of a
  person by a law enforcement agency that occurs before that date is
  governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
  of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.