Bill Text: TX SB1290 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1290 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to access to criminal history record information by an emergency communication district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB1290 Detail]

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	By: Creighton	S.B. No. 1290
	(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2017; March 13, 2017, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
	April 20, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
	Nays 0; April 20, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to access to criminal history record information by an
	emergency communication district.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 411.1297 to read as follows:
	Sec. 411.1297. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD
	INFORMATION: EMPLOYMENT BY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION DISTRICT.
	(a) An emergency communication district created under Chapter
	772, Health and Safety Code, is entitled to obtain from the
	department criminal history record information maintained by the
	department that relates to a person who is:
	(1) an applicant for employment by or an employee of
	the district;
	(2) an applicant for a volunteer position or a
	volunteer with the district; or
	(3) an applicant for employment by or an employee of a
	person that contracts with the district.
	(b) Criminal history record information obtained by an
	emergency communication district under Subsection (a) may not be
	released or disclosed to any person except:
	(1) in a criminal proceeding;
	(2) on court order; or
	(3) with the consent of the person who is the subject
	of the criminal history record information.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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