By Krusee                                              H.B. No. 932
       74R3058 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a member of the state military to
    1-3  possess certain weapons while in the discharge of official duties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 46.03(d), Penal Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (d)  It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(5)
    1-8  that the actor possessed a firearm or club while traveling to or
    1-9  from the actor's place of assignment or in the actual discharge of
   1-10  duties as:
   1-11              (1)  a peace officer;
   1-12              (2)  a member of the armed forces or a member of the
   1-13  state military forces, as defined by Section 431.001, Government
   1-14  Code <national guard>;
   1-15              (3)  a guard employed by a penal institution; or
   1-16              (4)  a security officer commissioned by the Texas Board
   1-17  of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies if:
   1-18                    (A)  the actor is wearing a distinctive uniform;
   1-19  and
   1-20                    (B)  the firearm or club is in plain view.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.