73R2898 DRH-F By Yarbrough, et al. H.B. No. 472 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the exemption of judges and justices from the 1-3 prohibition against carrying certain weapons. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 46.03, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Section 46.02 of this code does not apply to: 1-8 (1) an active, full-time judge or justice of the 1-9 supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, a court of appeals, a 1-10 district court, a criminal district court, a statutory county 1-11 court, or a municipal court; 1-12 (2) an active, full-time justice of the peace; or 1-13 (3) a senior judge or judicial officer as defined by 1-14 Section 75.001, 831.001, or 836.001, Government Code. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.