Tex. Occ. Code § 1001.272 · Subchapter F-1. GENERAL LICENSE, REGISTRATION, AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT
CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION REQUIREMENT FOR LICENSE ISSUANCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to an applicant for a license or registration as an engineer, licensed state land surveyor, or registered professional land surveyor.
(b) The board shall require that an applicant for a license submit a complete and legible set of fingerprints, on a form prescribed by the board, to the board or to the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information from the Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(c) The board may not issue a license to a person who does not comply with the requirement of Subsection (b).
(d) The board shall conduct a criminal history check of each applicant for a license using information:
(1) provided by the individual under this section; and
(2) made available to the board by the Department of Public Safety, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and any other criminal justice agency under Chapter 411, Government Code.
(e) The board may:
(1) enter into an agreement with the Department of Public Safety to administer a criminal history check required under this section; and
(2) authorize the Department of Public Safety to collect from each applicant the costs incurred by the Department of Public Safety in conducting the criminal history check.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 402 (S.B. 204), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2013.
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Occupations Code, Section 1001.3035 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1232 (H.B. 1523), Sec. 1.29, eff. September 1, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.1001.htm
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