Bill Text: TX HB3454 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3454 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to certain employment and occupational licensing restrictions based on a person's prior conviction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3454 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB3454-Introduced.html

	87R12174 MAW-D

	By: White	H.B. No. 3454



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to certain employment and occupational licensing
	restrictions based on a person's prior conviction.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 22.092, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
	(c-1) Notwithstanding any other law, a person is not
	ineligible for employment in a public school as a food service
	worker solely because the person has been convicted of a
	nonviolent, nonsexual offense.
	SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 53, Occupations Code, is
	amended by adding Section 53.027 to read as follows:
	Sec. 53.027. ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN LICENSES. (a) This
	section applies only to a license issued under:
	(1) Title 3;
	(2) Title 7;
	(3) Title 8; or
	(4) Title 12.
	(b) Notwithstanding any other law, an applicant may not be
	denied a license to which this section applies based solely on the
	applicant having been convicted of a nonviolent, nonsexual offense.
	SECTION 3. Section 522.081, Transportation Code, is amended
	by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
	(i) Notwithstanding any other law, a person may not be
	disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle based solely
	on the person having been convicted of a nonviolent, nonsexual
	offense.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.