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Texas Finance Code - FIN § 156.206. Criminal and Other Background Checks

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., ch. 160 (S.B. 1004), § 87(5).

(b) The commissioner shall conduct criminal background and credit history checks on a person required to be licensed under this chapter.

(c) The commissioner shall keep confidential any background information obtained under this section and may not release or disclose the information unless:

(1) the information is a public record at the time the commissioner obtains the information;  or

(2) the commissioner releases the information:

(A) under order from a court;  or

(B)  to a governmental agency.

(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), criminal history record information obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation may be released or disclosed only to a governmental entity or as authorized by federal statute, federal rule, or federal executive order.

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