Art. 66.401.  GRANTS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAMS.  The council, the Department of Public Safety, the criminal justice division of the governor's office, and the Department of Information Resources cooperatively shall develop and adopt a grant program, to be implemented by the criminal justice division at a time and in a manner determined by the division, to aid local law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and court personnel in obtaining equipment and training necessary to operate a telecommunications network capable of:
(1)  making inquiries to and receiving responses from the statewide automated fingerprint identification system and from the computerized criminal history system; and
(2)  transmitting information to those systems.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1058 (H.B. 2931), Sec. 1.03, eff. January 1, 2019.