Texas Business & Commerce Code

§ 106.003 — CONDUCT OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK

BC § 106.003Title 5. REGULATION OF BUSINESSES AND SERVICES · Part C. BUSINESS OPERATIONS · Ch. 106. INTERNET DATING SAFETY ACT

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(a)For purposes of this chapter, an online dating service provider conducts a criminal background check on a person if the provider initiates a name search for the person's convictions for any:

(1)felony offense;

(2)offense the conviction or adjudication of which requires registration as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure; and

(3)offense for which an affirmative finding of family violence was made under Article 42.013, Code of Criminal Procedure.

(b)The name search described by Subsection (a) must be conducted by searching:

(1)available and regularly updated government public record databases for criminal conviction records described by Subsections (a)(1)-(3) that in the aggregate provide substantially national coverage of those records; or

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 27 (S.B. 488), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.