Bill Text: TX HB4040 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for employment by a dispensing organization licensed under the Texas Compassionate-Use Act based on a criminal history background check.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB4040 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4040-Introduced.html
  86R12136 GCB-D
 
  By: Dominguez H.B. No. 4040
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to eligibility for employment by a dispensing organization
  licensed under the Texas Compassionate-Use Act based on a criminal
  history background check.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 487.105, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
         (c-1)  The criteria established under Subsection (c) must
  provide that an individual's conviction of or placement on deferred
  adjudication community supervision for an offense involving the
  possession of marihuana that was punishable as a misdemeanor does
  not prevent the individual from passing the criminal history
  background check for the purposes of this section.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
  487.105, Health and Safety Code, applies to an individual's
  eligibility for employment with a dispensing organization based on
  a criminal history background check conducted on or after the
  effective date of this Act, regardless of when a conviction
  reported as part of the individual's criminal history occurred.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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