By Lewis of Tarrant                                   H.B. No. 1933
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to allowing a county clerk to impose a fee for certain
 1-3     background checks.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 118.011(b), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  The county clerk may set and collect the following fee
 1-8     from any person:
 1-9                 (1)  Returned Check (Sec. 118.0215) ........ not less
1-10     than $15 or more than $25
1-11                 (2)  Records Management and Preservation Fee (Sec.
1-12     118.0216) ...................... not more than $5
1-13                 (3)  Mental Health Background Check for License to
1-14     Carry a Concealed Weapon (Sec. 118.0217) . . . . . . . . not more
1-15     than $5
1-16           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 118, Local Government Code,
1-17     is amended by adding Section 118.0217 to read as follows:
1-18           Sec. 118.0217.  MENTAL HEALTH BACKGROUND CHECK.  (a)  The fee
1-19     for a "mental health background check for license to carry a
1-20     concealed weapon" is for a check, conducted by the county clerk at
1-21     the request of the Texas Department of Public Safety, of the county
1-22     records involving the mental condition of a person who applies for
1-23     a license to carry a concealed handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter
1-24     411, Government Code.  The license applicant shall pay the fee.
 2-1           (b)  This section and Section 118.011(b)(3) do not affect the
 2-2     procedures for access to court records prescribed by Section
 2-3     571.015, Health and Safety Code.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.