1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a background check of a person who applies for
1-3 certification as a qualified handgun instructor.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 411.190(c), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) In the manner applicable to a person who applies for a
1-8 license to carry a concealed handgun, the department shall conduct
1-9 a background check of a person who applies for certification as a
1-10 qualified handgun instructor. If the background check indicates
1-11 that the applicant for certification would not qualify to receive a
1-12 handgun license, the department may not certify the applicant as a
1-13 qualified handgun instructor. If the background check indicates
1-14 that the applicant for certification would qualify to receive a
1-15 handgun license, the [The] department shall provide handgun
1-16 instructor training to the applicant [an individual who applies for
1-17 certification as a qualified handgun instructor]. The [An]
1-18 applicant shall pay a fee of $100 to the department for the
1-19 training. The [An] applicant must take and successfully complete
1-20 the training offered by the department and pay the training fee
1-21 before the department may certify the applicant as a qualified
1-22 handgun instructor. The department shall issue a license to carry
1-23 a concealed handgun under the authority of this subchapter to any
1-24 person who is certified as a qualified handgun instructor and who
2-1 pays to the department a fee of $100 in addition to the training
2-2 fee. The department by rule may prorate or waive the training fee
2-3 for an employee of another governmental entity.
2-4 SECTION 2. (a) In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
2-5 Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
2-6 enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
2-7 the text of Section 411.190(c), Government Code, as set out in this
2-8 Act, gives effect to changes made by Section 12, Chapter 1261, Acts
2-9 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
2-10 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
2-11 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
2-12 relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted
2-13 codes.
2-14 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
2-15 to an application for certification as a qualified handgun
2-16 instructor that is submitted on or after the effective date of this
2-17 Act. An application for certification as a qualified handgun
2-18 instructor that is submitted before the effective date of this Act
2-19 is covered by the law in effect when the application was submitted,
2-20 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-21 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-22 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 592 was passed by the House on March
25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 592 was passed by the Senate on May
10, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor