73R2901 JRD-D
          By Lewis                                              H.B. No. 1088
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to allowing certain retired commissioned officers of the
    1-3  Department of Public Safety to carry a handgun.
    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)  The provision of Section 46.02 of this code prohibiting
    1-8  the carrying of a handgun does not apply to a person who is an
    1-9  honorably retired commissioned officer of the Department of Public
   1-10  Safety if the person:
   1-11              (1)  retired:
   1-12                    (A)  after at least 20 years of service with the
   1-13  department; or
   1-14                    (B)  because of a disability incurred in the line
   1-15  of duty with the department; and
   1-16              (2)  currently satisfies the requirement to annually
   1-17  demonstrate weapons proficiency in the manner prescribed by Section
   1-18  415.035, Government Code.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
   1-20  amended by adding Section 411.0201 to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 411.0201.  WEAPONS PROFICIENCY TESTS FOR CERTAIN
   1-22  RETIREES.  The department shall allow a retiree who may be eligible
   1-23  to carry a handgun under Section 46.03(d), Penal Code, a reasonable
   1-24  opportunity to demonstrate the required weapons proficiency to the
    2-1  department's firearms proficiency officer under Section 415.035.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.