By: Huffman S.B. No. 682
(Elkins)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to access to criminal history record information that
relates to a person who is an applicant for appointment to an
appraisal review board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 411.1296, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 411.1296. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD
INFORMATION: EMPLOYMENT BY APPRAISAL DISTRICT AND APPOINTMENT TO
APPRAISAL REVIEW BOARD.
SECTION 2. Section 411.1296, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an appraisal
district established by Section 6.01, Tax Code, is entitled to
obtain from the department criminal history record information
maintained by the department that relates to a person who is an
applicant for employment by the appraisal district or for
appointment to the appraisal review board for the appraisal
district.
(c) If the members of the appraisal review board of an
appraisal district are appointed by the local administrative
district judge, the appraisal district may provide criminal history
record information obtained under this section to the local
administrative district judge or to the appraisal review board
commissioners appointed by the local administrative district
judge.
SECTION 3. 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.