82R4415 VOO-F
By: Kleinschmidt H.B. No. 584
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to storage of electronic fingerprint records and access to
criminal history record information.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 411.0845, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (l) and (m) to read as follows:
(l) The department shall maintain the electronic
fingerprint record of each person who is the subject of a criminal
history record information request. The person who is the subject
of a criminal history record information request may authorize the
department to forward updated criminal history record information,
including information received from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, to a person entitled to such information under this
subchapter. After the department receives any fee charged by the
department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the criminal
history record information, the department shall forward the
criminal history record information to the authorized person.
(m) Notwithstanding any other law, a state agency may not
require an individual to submit a completed fingerprint card or an
electronic fingerprint record to obtain the individual's criminal
history record information if the individual has submitted a
completed fingerprint card or an electronic fingerprint record to
the department not more than five years before the date the state
agency requests the individual's criminal history record
information from the department.
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, 2011.