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Texas Education Code - Section 22.084. Access To Criminal History Records Of School Bus Drivers, Bus Monitors, And Bus Aides

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§ 22.084. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS OF SCHOOL BUS 
DRIVERS, BUS MONITORS, AND BUS AIDES.  (a) Except as provided by 
Subsections (c) and (d), a school district, open-enrollment charter 
school, private school, regional education service center, or 
shared services arrangement that contracts with a person for 
transportation services shall obtain from any law enforcement or 
criminal justice agency all criminal history record information 
that relates to:
		(1)  a person employed by the person as a bus driver;  
or                   
		(2)  a person the person intends to employ as a bus 
driver.                 
	(b)  Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), a person 
that contracts with a school district, open-enrollment charter 
school, private school, regional education service center, or 
shared services arrangement to provide transportation services 
shall submit to the district, school, service center, or shared 
services arrangement the name and other identification data 
required to obtain criminal history record information of each 
person described by Subsection (a).  If the district, school, 
service center, or shared services arrangement obtains information 
that a person described by Subsection (a) has been convicted of a 
felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, the district, 
school, service center, or shared services arrangement shall inform 
the chief personnel officer of the person with whom the district, 
school, service center, or shared services arrangement has 
contracted, and the person may not employ that person to drive a bus 
on which students are transported without the permission of the 
board of trustees of the district or service center, the governing 
body of the open-enrollment charter school, or the chief executive 
officer of the private school or shared services arrangement.
	(c)  A commercial transportation company that contracts with 
a school district, open-enrollment charter school, private school, 
regional education service center, or shared services arrangement 
to provide transportation services may obtain from any law 
enforcement or criminal justice agency all criminal history record 
information that relates to:
		(1)  a person employed by the commercial transportation 
company as a bus driver, bus monitor, or bus aide;  or
		(2)  a person the commercial transportation company 
intends to employ as a bus driver, bus monitor, or bus aide.
	(d)  If the commercial transportation company obtains 
information that a person employed or to be employed by the company 
has been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor involving moral 
turpitude, the company may not employ that person to drive or to 
serve as a bus monitor or bus aide on a bus on which students are 
transported without the permission of the board of trustees of the 
district or service center, the governing body of the 
open-enrollment charter school, or the chief executive officer of 
the private school or shared services arrangement.  Subsections (a) 
and (b) do not apply if information is obtained as provided by 
Subsection (c).

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1438, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997.

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