76R11967 JMC-D
By Hupp H.B. No. 1020
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1020:
By Turner of Coleman C.S.H.B. No. 1020
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the age at which certain persons are eligible for a
1-3 license to carry a concealed handgun.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 411.172(a), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person is eligible for a license to carry a concealed
1-8 handgun if the person:
1-9 (1) is a legal resident of this state for the
1-10 six-month period preceding the date of application under this
1-11 subchapter or is otherwise eligible for a license under Section
1-12 411.173(a);
1-13 (2) is at least 21 years of age or, if the person is a
1-14 member of the armed forces of the United States, including the
1-15 reserves or national guard, or the state militia, as defined by
1-16 Section 431.001, Government Code, is at least 18 years of age;
1-17 (3) has not been convicted of a felony;
1-18 (4) is not charged with the commission of a Class A or
1-19 Class B misdemeanor or an offense under Section 42.01, Penal Code,
1-20 or of a felony under an information or indictment;
1-21 (5) is not a fugitive from justice for a felony or a
1-22 Class A or Class B misdemeanor;
1-23 (6) is not a chemically dependent person;
1-24 (7) is not incapable of exercising sound judgment with
2-1 respect to the proper use and storage of a handgun;
2-2 (8) has not, in the five years preceding the date of
2-3 application, been convicted of a Class A or Class B misdemeanor or
2-4 an offense under Section 42.01, Penal Code;
2-5 (9) is fully qualified under applicable federal and
2-6 state law to:
2-7 (A) purchase a handgun; or
2-8 (B) possess a handgun, if the person is a member
2-9 of the armed forces as described by Subdivision (2);
2-10 (10) has not been finally determined to be delinquent
2-11 in making a child support payment administered or collected by the
2-12 attorney general;
2-13 (11) has not been finally determined to be delinquent
2-14 in the payment of a tax or other money collected by the
2-15 comptroller, the tax collector of a political subdivision of the
2-16 state, or any agency or subdivision of the state;
2-17 (12) has not been finally determined to be in default
2-18 on a loan made under Chapter 57, Education Code;
2-19 (13) is not currently restricted under a court
2-20 protective order or subject to a restraining order affecting the
2-21 spousal relationship, other than a restraining order solely
2-22 affecting property interests;
2-23 (14) has not, in the 10 years preceding the date of
2-24 application, been adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent
2-25 conduct violating a penal law of the grade of felony; and
2-26 (15) has not made any material misrepresentation, or
2-27 failed to disclose any material fact, in an application submitted
3-1 pursuant to Section 411.174 or in a request for application
3-2 submitted pursuant to Section 411.175.
3-3 SECTION 2. (a) In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
3-4 Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
3-5 enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
3-6 the text of Section 411.172(a), Government Code, as set out in this
3-7 Act, gives effect to changes made by Chapter 1261, Acts of the 75th
3-8 Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
3-9 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
3-10 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
3-11 relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted
3-12 codes.
3-13 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.