1-1     By:  Lewis of Tarrant (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)      H.B. No. 1933
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to allowing a county clerk to impose a fee for certain
 1-9     background checks.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 118.011(b), Local Government Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  The county clerk may set and collect the following fee
1-14     from any person:
1-15                 (1)  Returned Check (Sec. 118.0215) ........ not less
1-16     than $15 or more than $25
1-17                 (2)  Records Management and Preservation Fee (Sec.
1-18     118.0216) ...................... not more than $5
1-19                 (3)  Mental Health Background Check for License to
1-20     Carry a Concealed Weapon (Sec. 118.0217) . . . . . . . . not more
1-21     than $5
1-22           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 118, Local Government Code,
1-23     is amended by adding Section 118.0217 to read as follows:
1-24           Sec. 118.0217.  MENTAL HEALTH BACKGROUND CHECK.  (a)  The fee
1-25     for a "mental health background check for license to carry a
1-26     concealed weapon" is for a check, conducted by the county clerk at
1-27     the request of the Texas Department of Public Safety, of the county
1-28     records involving the mental condition of a person who applies for
1-29     a license to carry a concealed handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter
1-30     411, Government Code.  The fee, not to exceed $2, will be paid from
1-31     the application fee submitted to the Department of Public Safety
1-32     according to Section 411.174(a)(6), Government Code.
1-33           (b)  This section and Section 118.011(b)(3) do not affect the
1-34     procedures for access to court records prescribed by Section
1-35     571.015, Health and Safety Code.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42     passage, and it is so enacted.
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