Texas Education Code
§ 22.0836 — NATIONAL CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION REVIEW OF SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS
ED § 22.0836Title 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION · Part D. EDUCATORS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS · Ch. 22. SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS · Art. C. CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS
Statute text
View on source(a)This section applies to a person who is a substitute teacher for a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement.
(b)A person to whom this section applies must submit to a national criminal history record information review under this section.
(c)A school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement shall send or ensure that a person to whom this section applies sends to the department information that is required by the department for obtaining national criminal history record information, which may include fingerprints and photographs.
(d)The department shall obtain the person's national criminal history record information and report the results through the criminal history clearinghouse as provided by Section 411.0845, Government Code.
(e)Each school district, open-enrollment charter school, and shared services arrangement shall obtain all criminal history record information that relates to a person to whom this section applies through the criminal history clearinghouse as provided by Section 411.0845, Government Code.
(f)The school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement may require a person to pay any fees related to obtaining criminal history record information under this section.
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Legislative history
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1138 (S.B. 571), Sec. 2.15, eff. June 20, 2025.