Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Background Checks Fingerprinting topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Committee pauses consideration of broad fingerprinting amendment that would add agencies and expand records access
Summary
Lawmakers deferred further action on an extensive amendment to the fingerprinting and criminal‑history statute that would add the attorney general, state gaming agency and bank commissioner to various fingerprinting and background checks; the committee agreed to revisit the large amendment at a later meeting.
The House Committee on Judiciary paused consideration of a large amendment to Senate Bill 30 Wednesday that would consolidate fingerprinting and criminal‑history access provisions and add several agencies, including the Office of the Attorney General, the State Gaming Agency and the State Bank Commissioner, to the statute.
Jason Thompson of the Revisor's Office described the amendment as moving multiple agency fingerprinting provisions into the main fingerprinting statute and adjusting which classes of records particular agencies may receive (for example, certain paragraphs grant access to juvenile and expunged records while others limit access to adult convictions and nonconvictions). The amendment also contained several bank‑commissioner statutory changes and a definition of "applicant."
Committee members asked for more time to review the 14‑page attachment. Representative Osman said she was concerned the amendment functioned as a secondary bill attached without a separate hearing; members agreed to pause the amendment and resume discussion the next day to allow more time to review the large consolidated text.
No vote was taken Wednesday; the committee planned to revisit the amendment at the next meeting.
