Texas Administrative Code
Title 40 - SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
Part 19 - DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Chapter 700 - CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Subchapter A - ADMINISTRATION
Section 700.105 - Criminal Record Checks for Authorized External Volunteer Organizations

(a) To obtain criminal history records on volunteers or volunteer applicants, the agencies authorized by law to obtain these through the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) must give DFPS identifying information about the applicant on a form designated by DFPS for that purpose.

(b) The volunteer agency must ensure that the person on whom the information is being requested has consented in writing to DFPS disclosing the information to the volunteer agency.

(c) DFPS discloses the criminal history information received from the Texas Department of Public Safety directly to the volunteer agency that requests it, although DFPS must not give the volunteer agency a copy of the information or allow the volunteer agency to make a photocopy of the information.

(d) DFPS retains the criminal records check information obtained on behalf of the volunteer agency only as long as is needed to ensure that the volunteer agency has received the information and then DFPS deletes or destroys the information.

(e) DFPS may charge an organization that requests criminal record history information a fee in the amount necessary to cover the costs of obtaining the information on the organization's behalf.