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A blanket order of the Guadalupe County Court authorizing the release of mental-health court records under section 571.015 of the Texas Health and Safety Code to comply with the federal NICS Improvement Amendments Act, so that qualifying records are reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Applies to the release of mental-health court records of the Guadalupe County Court for NICS reporting. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
[File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD, 2013 MAR -6 PM 2:56, Teresa Kiel, Guadalupe County Clerk] § In the County Court of Guadalupe [handwritten] County, Texas BLANKET ORDER AUTHORIZING RELEASE OF MENTAL HEALTH COURT RECORDS PURSUANT TO SEC. 571.015 OF TEXAS HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE House Bill 3352 (now codified at sections 411.052 and 411.0521 of the Texas Government Code and section 574.088 of the Texas Health and Safety Code) was passed by the 81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, in 2009, to comply with and implement the requirements of the federal NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, Pub. L. 110-180 ("NIAA"). The NIAA was signed into law on January 8, 2008, and it amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 ("the Brady Act"), Pub. L. 103-159, under which the United States Attorney General established the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The Brady Act requires Federal Firearms Licensees to contact the NICS before transferring a firearm to an unlicensed person to obtain information on whether the proposed transferee is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. Many prohibited persons are not prevented from purchasing firearms because their records are not in NICS. The NIAA was enacted after the April 2007 shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech to enhance the reporting to NICS of disqualifying mental health information and other prohibiting factors such as felony convictions, active arrest warrants, and misdemeanor convictions for domestic violence. The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") is conducting an audit to verify that the mental health information reported to NICS is valid and correct, and the Department of Public Safety ("DPS") is required to collect the information for the FBI's audit. The Court finds that the use, inspection, or copying of each paper in a docket for mental health proceedings in the county clerk's office, including the docket book, indexes, and judgment books, by DPS, which is assisting the FBI in its audit to verify that the mental health information reported to NICS is valid and correct, is justified and in the public interest. It is ORDERED that the county clerk is authorized to release to DPS, for its use, inspection or copying, each paper in a docket for mental health proceedings in the county clerk's office that is requested by the FBI for its audit to verify that the mental health information reported to NICS is valid and correct. Effective 2-22-13 [handwritten over the form's date blank] and until further order of this Court, BY THE COURT: [signature] Judge Date of Order: 2-22-13 [handwritten]
In the County Court of Guadalupe County, Texas — Blanket Order Authorizing Release of Mental Health Court Records Pursuant to Section 571.015 of the Texas Health and Safety Code. House Bill 3352 (codified at Texas Government Code sections 411.052 and 411.0521 and Health and Safety Code section 574.088) was passed by the 81st Texas Legislature in 2009 to implement the federal NICS Improvement Amend
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read). Bound to Guadalupe County (probate/mental health). [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 d11dea8ff1ee..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 867-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (1 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (3/3) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 d11dea8ff1ee..., 2 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.