Tex. Finance Code § 14.153

This is the official text of Tex. Finance Code § 14.153, part of Texas’s Finance Code — regulates banks and other financial institutions.

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§ 14.153. ACTION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

Official statutory text

(a) The commissioner shall send fingerprints and other identification information to the Department of Public Safety to be retained by that department.

(b) The Department of Public Safety shall use the information to perform a search of the state criminal history files and shall report the findings to the office.

(c) The Department of Public Safety shall send fingerprints and other identification information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation so that the bureau can perform a search of its criminal history files.

(d) The Department of Public Safety shall notify the office of activity reported to the crime records division that identifies a person with a record maintained under this subchapter.

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