Bill Text: TX HB4267 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fingerprint requirements for state licensees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-31 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB4267 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4267-Introduced.html
| By: Elkins | H.B. No. 4267 | |
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| relating to fingerprint requirements for state licensees. | ||
| 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. FINGERPRINT REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE LICENSEES | ||
| Sec. 60.01. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Department" means the Department of Public | ||
| Safety. | ||
| (2) "State license" means a license, permit, | ||
| registration certificate, or other evidence of authority issued by | ||
| a state licensing authority for which the applicant for the license | ||
| is required under state law to submit fingerprints. | ||
| (3) "State licensee" means a person or entity that, | ||
| under state law, in order to practice the person's occupation or | ||
| conduct the entity's business in this state, is required to obtain a | ||
| state license. | ||
| (4) "State licensing authority" means a state agency, | ||
| department, board, or commission or the executive or administrative | ||
| officer of a state agency, department, board, or commission. | ||
| Sec. 60.02. FINGERPRINT REQUIREMENTS FOR PERSONS WITH MORE | ||
| THAN ONE STATE LICENSE. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, after | ||
| the state licensing authority issues a state license, the state | ||
| licensing authority shall submit the applicant's fingerprints to | ||
| the department, and the department shall maintain the applicant's | ||
| fingerprints on file. | ||
| (b) If, after obtaining a state license, a state licensee is | ||
| required to obtain a separate state license for another purpose, | ||
| and the state licensee's fingerprints were submitted to another | ||
| state licensing authority during the same calendar year, | ||
| notwithstanding any other law: | ||
| (1) the state licensee is not required to submit the | ||
| state licensee's fingerprints to the other state licensing | ||
| authority; and | ||
| (2) the other state licensing authority is authorized | ||
| to obtain the fingerprints of the state licensee that are | ||
| maintained on file by the department under Subsection (a). | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
