Sec. 106.003. CONDUCT OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK. (a) For purposes of this chapter, an online dating service provider conducts a criminal background check on a person if the provider initiates a name search for the person's convictions for any: (1) felony offense; (2) offense the conviction or adjudication of which requires registration as a sex offender under Chapter 62 , Code of Criminal Procedure; and (3) offense for which an affirmative finding of family violence was made under Article 42.013 , Code of Criminal Procedure. (b) The name search described by Subsection (a) must be conducted by searching: (1) available and regularly updated government public record databases for criminal conviction records described by Subsections (a)(1)-(3) that in the aggregate provide substantially national coverage of those records; or (2) regularly updated databases that contain at least the same or substantially similar coverage as would be accessible through searching databases described by Subdivision (1).
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