Sec. 411.12514.  ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION: TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PLUMBING EXAMINERS.  (a)  The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners is entitled to obtain criminal history record information as provided by Subsection (b) that relates to an applicant for a license, registration, endorsement, or certificate under Chapter 1301, Occupations Code, including a license, registration, endorsement, or certificate, as applicable, for any of the following functions:  master plumber, journeyman plumber, plumbing inspector, tradesman-plumber limited, plumber's apprentice, multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler specialist, water supply protection specialist, and medical gas piping installation.
(b)  Subject to Section 411.087 and consistent with the public policy of this state, the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners is entitled to:
(1)  obtain through the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record information maintained or indexed by that bureau that pertains to a person described by Subsection (a); and
(2)  obtain from the department or any other criminal justice agency in this state criminal history record information maintained by the department or that criminal justice agency that relates to a person described by Subsection (a).
(c)  The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners may not release or disclose to any person criminal history record information obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Subsection (b)(1).  Criminal history record information obtained by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners under Subsection (b)(2) may not be released or disclosed to any person except on court order, with the written consent of the person or entity that is the subject of the criminal history record information, or as provided by Subsection (d).
(d)  The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners is not prohibited from disclosing criminal history record information obtained under Subsection (b)(2) in a criminal proceeding or in a hearing conducted by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners.
(e)  The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners shall destroy criminal history record information that is obtained under this section after the information is used for its authorized purpose.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 871 (H.B. 4123), Sec. 53, eff. June 13, 2023.