Bill Text: TX HB4040 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for employment by a dispensing organization licensed under the Texas Compassionate-Use Act based on a criminal history background check.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB4040 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4040-Introduced.html
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| By: Dominguez | H.B. No. 4040 | |
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| relating to eligibility for employment by a dispensing organization | ||
| licensed under the Texas Compassionate-Use Act based on a criminal | ||
| history background check. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 487.105, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) The criteria established under Subsection (c) must | ||
| provide that an individual's conviction of or placement on deferred | ||
| adjudication community supervision for an offense involving the | ||
| possession of marihuana that was punishable as a misdemeanor does | ||
| not prevent the individual from passing the criminal history | ||
| background check for the purposes of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 487.105, Health and Safety Code, applies to an individual's | ||
| eligibility for employment with a dispensing organization based on | ||
| a criminal history background check conducted on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act, regardless of when a conviction | ||
| reported as part of the individual's criminal history occurred. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
