86R12136 GCB-D
By: Dominguez H.B. No. 4040
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.