Bill Text: TX HB2197 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2197 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to fingerprinting requirements for occupational licenses.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-07 - Left pending in committee [HB2197 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2197-Introduced.html

	84R7131 NC-D

	By: Springer	H.B. No. 2197



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to fingerprinting requirements for occupational licenses.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Title 2, Occupations Code, is amended by adding
	Chapter 60 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 60. FINGERPRINTING REQUIREMENTS
	Sec. 60.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
	(1) "License" means a license, certificate,
	registration, permit, or other form of authorization required by
	law or a state agency rule that must be obtained by an individual to
	engage in a particular business.
	(2) "State agency" means a department, board, bureau,
	commission, committee, division, office, council, or agency of this
	state.
	Sec. 60.002. FINGERPRINTING OF CERTAIN LICENSE APPLICANTS
	PROHIBITED. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as
	provided by this section, a state agency that issues a license may
	not require an applicant for the license to submit fingerprints to
	the agency, the Department of Public Safety, or any other person as
	a requirement for the issuance or renewal of the license.
	(b) This section does not apply to an applicant for a
	license issued under Chapter 1701 or 1702.
	SECTION 2. Chapter 60, Occupations Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to an application for the issuance or renewal of
	an occupational license filed on or after the effective date of this
	Act. An application filed before that date is governed by the law
	in effect on the date the application was filed, and the former law
	is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.