Tex. Occ. Code § 202.2525 · Subchapter F. LICENSE REQUIREMENTS
CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION FOR LICENSE ISSUANCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall require that an applicant for a license submit a complete and legible set of fingerprints, on a form prescribed by the executive director, to the department 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.
(b) The department may not issue a license to a person who does not comply with the requirement of Subsection (a).
(c) The department shall conduct a criminal history record information check of each applicant for a license using information:
(1) provided by the individual under this section; and
(2) made available to the department by the Department of Public Safety, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and any other criminal justice agency under Chapter 411, Government Code.
(d) The department may:
(1) enter into an agreement with the Department of Public Safety to administer a criminal history record information 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 record information check.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 282 (H.B. 3078), Sec. 24, eff. September 1, 2017.
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