1-1 By: Yarbrough, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 472
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1993;
1-3 May 6, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 11, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Whitmire x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Nelson x
1-12 Sibley x
1-13 Sims x
1-14 Turner x
1-15 West x
1-16 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 472 By: Whitmire
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to the exemption of judges and justices from the
1-20 prohibition against carrying certain weapons.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Section 46.03, Penal Code, is amended by adding
1-23 Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-24 (d) Section 46.02 of this code does not apply to:
1-25 (1) an active, full-time judge or justice of the
1-26 supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, a court of appeals, a
1-27 district court, a criminal district court, a constitutional county
1-28 court, or a statutory county court;
1-29 (2) an active presiding or associate municipal judge;
1-30 (3) an active, full-time justice of the peace; or
1-31 (4) a senior judge or judicial officer as defined by
1-32 Section 75.001, 831.001, or 836.001, Government Code.
1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-40 Austin,
1-41 Texas
1-42 May 11, 1993
1-43 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-44 President of the Senate
1-45 Sir:
1-46 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
1-47 No. 472, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-48 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-49 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
1-50 do pass and be printed.
1-51 Whitmire,
1-52 Chairman
1-53 * * * * *
1-54 WITNESSES
1-55 FOR AGAINST ON
1-56 ___________________________________________________________________
1-57 Name: John Williams x
1-58 Representing: Justice of the Peace & Constab
1-59 City: Robstown
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1-61 Name: Judge Bill Freeman x
1-62 Representing: Justice of the Peace & Consta
1-63 City: Gainesville
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1-65 Name: Bruce Isaacks x
1-66 Representing: District Atty
1-67 City: Denton
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2-1 Name: Mark Clark x
2-2 Representing: CLEAT
2-3 City: Austin
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