By Lewis of Tarrant H.B. No. 1933 76R5325 DRH-D 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.