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        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to use of the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and | 
      
        |  | Registry in connection with the regulatory authority of the | 
      
        |  | consumer credit commissioner; affecting fees. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 14, Finance Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended by adding Section 14.109 to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 14.109.  USE OF THE NATIONWIDE MORTGAGE LICENSING | 
      
        |  | SYSTEM AND REGISTRY.  (a) In this section, "Nationwide Mortgage | 
      
        |  | Licensing System and Registry" or "nationwide registry" means a | 
      
        |  | licensing system developed and maintained by the Conference of | 
      
        |  | State Bank Supervisors and an affiliated organization to manage | 
      
        |  | mortgage licenses and other financial services licenses or a | 
      
        |  | successor registry. | 
      
        |  | (b)  This section applies only to: | 
      
        |  | (1)  this chapter; and | 
      
        |  | (2)  Chapter 342, 348, 351, 393, or 394. | 
      
        |  | (c)  The commissioner may require that a person submit | 
      
        |  | through the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry in | 
      
        |  | the form and manner prescribed by the commissioner and acceptable | 
      
        |  | to the registry any information or document or payment of a fee | 
      
        |  | required to be submitted to the commissioner under: | 
      
        |  | (1)  a chapter to which this section applies; or | 
      
        |  | (2)  rules adopted under the chapter. | 
      
        |  | (d)  The commissioner may use the nationwide registry as a | 
      
        |  | channeling agent for obtaining information required for licensing | 
      
        |  | or registration purposes under a chapter listed in Subsection | 
      
        |  | (b)(2) or rules adopted under the chapter, including: | 
      
        |  | (1)  criminal history record information from the | 
      
        |  | Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Department of | 
      
        |  | Justice, or any other agency or entity at the commissioner's | 
      
        |  | discretion; | 
      
        |  | (2)  information related to any administrative, civil, | 
      
        |  | or criminal findings by a governmental jurisdiction; and | 
      
        |  | (3)  information requested by the commissioner | 
      
        |  | under Section 342.101(a)(4), 348.502(a)(3), 351.101(a)(4), | 
      
        |  | 393.604(a)(5), or 394.204(c)(8). | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 1721 was passed by the House on April | 
      
        |  | 11, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 4, 2 present, not | 
      
        |  | voting. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 1721 was passed by the Senate on May | 
      
        |  | 20, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
        |  | APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
      
        |  | Date | 
      
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        |  | _____________________ | 
      
        |  | Governor |