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. 1-43 * * * * *