By Hupp H.B. No. 1020
76R4834 JMC-D
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 purchase a handgun;
2-7 (10) has not been finally determined to be delinquent
2-8 in making a child support payment administered or collected by the
2-9 attorney general;
2-10 (11) has not been finally determined to be delinquent
2-11 in the payment of a tax or other money collected by the
2-12 comptroller, the tax collector of a political subdivision of the
2-13 state, or any agency or subdivision of the state;
2-14 (12) has not been finally determined to be in default
2-15 on a loan made under Chapter 57, Education Code;
2-16 (13) is not currently restricted under a court
2-17 protective order or subject to a restraining order affecting the
2-18 spousal relationship, other than a restraining order solely
2-19 affecting property interests;
2-20 (14) has not, in the 10 years preceding the date of
2-21 application, been adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent
2-22 conduct violating a penal law of the grade of felony; and
2-23 (15) has not made any material misrepresentation, or
2-24 failed to disclose any material fact, in an application submitted
2-25 pursuant to Section 411.174 or in a request for application
2-26 submitted pursuant to Section 411.175.
2-27 SECTION 2. (a) In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
3-1 Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
3-2 enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
3-3 the text of Section 411.172(a), Government Code, as set out in this
3-4 Act, gives effect to changes made by Chapter 1261, Acts of the 75th
3-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
3-6 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
3-7 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
3-8 relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted
3-9 codes.
3-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.