1-1     By:  Goolsby, Allen (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)      H.B. No. 592
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a background check of a person who applies for
 1-9     certification as a qualified handgun instructor.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 411.190(c), Government Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  In the manner applicable to a person who applies for a
1-14     license to carry a concealed handgun, the department shall conduct
1-15     a background check of a person who applies for certification as a
1-16     qualified handgun instructor.  If the background check indicates
1-17     that the applicant for certification would not qualify to receive a
1-18     handgun license, the department may not certify the applicant as a
1-19     qualified handgun instructor.  If the background check indicates
1-20     that the applicant for certification would qualify to receive a
1-21     handgun license, the [The] department shall provide handgun
1-22     instructor training to the applicant [an individual who applies for
1-23     certification as a qualified handgun instructor].  The [An]
1-24     applicant shall  pay a fee of $100 to the department for the
1-25     training.  The [An] applicant must take and successfully complete
1-26     the training offered by the  department and pay the training fee
1-27     before the department may certify the applicant as a qualified
1-28     handgun instructor.  The department shall issue a license to carry
1-29     a concealed handgun under the authority of this subchapter to any
1-30     person who is certified as a qualified handgun instructor and who
1-31     pays to the department a fee of $100 in addition to the training
1-32     fee.  The department by rule may prorate or waive the training fee
1-33     for an employee of another governmental entity.
1-34           SECTION 2.  (a)  In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
1-35     Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
1-36     enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
1-37     the text of Section 411.190(c), Government Code, as set out in this
1-38     Act, gives effect to changes made by Section 12, Chapter 1261, Acts
1-39     of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
1-40           (b)  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
1-41     another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
1-42     relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted
1-43     codes.
1-44           SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-45     to an application for certification as a qualified handgun
1-46     instructor that is submitted on or after the effective date of this
1-47     Act.  An application for certification as a qualified handgun
1-48     instructor that is submitted before the effective date of this Act
1-49     is covered by the law in effect when the application was submitted,
1-50     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-51           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-52           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-53     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-54     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-55     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-56     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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