The words and terms in this section, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
  (1) Department (DPS) - Texas Department of Public Safety.
  (2) FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  (3) Identity History Summary - The FBI report of all identification, demographic, and event information, criminal and/or civil, within a Texas and FBI Identity record that may be disseminated to an authorized recipient. Since a Texas and FBI Identity record may now contain criminal and/or civil information, the existence of an Identity History Summary alone does not indicate that any criminal history events exist for that person.
  (4) Request for criminal history record information - The processing and entry of a person’s complete set of fingerprints in the department’s tenprint database and the comparison of those prints to the department’s latent print database and if authorized the entry into FBI’s tenprint and comparison to the FBI’s latent print database.
  (5) Subscription - The subscription at the department, the FBI or both.
  (6) Subscription term - A lifetime subscription to a person.
  (7) Triggering event - Events that can trigger an update to an Identity History Summary. Examples include arrests, dispositions, and sex offender registry.
  (8) Validation - A process whereby the subscriber reviews a subscription to determine whether they are still authorized to receive criminal history record information on that individual and updates the subscription accordingly. Validations are required on a yearly basis.

Source Note: The provisions of this §27.172 adopted to be effective November 6, 2016, 41 TexReg 8625