76R13514 E                           
         By Hupp                                               H.B. No. 2240
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2240:
         By Turner of Coleman                              C.S.H.B. No. 2240
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the renewal of a person's license to carry a concealed
 1-3     handgun and to the procedures for that renewal.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 411.183(b), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  A renewed license expires on the license holder's
 1-8     birthdate, five [four] years after the date of the expiration of
 1-9     the previous license.
1-10           SECTION 2.  Section 411.185, Government Code, is amended by
1-11     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read
1-12     as follows:
1-13           (a)  To renew a license, a license holder must:
1-14                 (1)  complete a continuing education course in handgun
1-15     proficiency under Section 411.188(c) not more than six months
1-16     before the date of application for renewal;
1-17                 (2)  obtain a handgun proficiency certificate under
1-18     Section 411.189 not more than six months before the date of
1-19     application for renewal; and
1-20                 (3)  submit to the department:
1-21                       (A)  an application for renewal on a form
1-22     provided by the department;
1-23                       (B)  a copy of the handgun proficiency
1-24     certificate;
 2-1                       (C)  payment of a nonrefundable renewal fee as
 2-2     set by the department; and
 2-3                       (D)  two recent color passport photographs of the
 2-4     applicant, except as provided by Subsection (e).
 2-5           (e)  The director shall establish a procedure by which a
 2-6     person may renew the person's license to carry a concealed handgun
 2-7     by reporting in person to the location designated by the department
 2-8     as the location for a person to obtain an original driver's license
 2-9     issued by the department.  An applicant for renewal of a license to
2-10     carry a concealed handgun under this subsection must comply with
2-11     each requirement of Subsection (a), except that an applicant who at
2-12     the time of renewing a license under this subsection submits to the
2-13     taking of a driver's license photograph is not required to submit a
2-14     passport photograph to the department.
2-15           (f)  A license holder is not required to sign the application
2-16     form described by Subsection (a)(3)(A) before a notary public or
2-17     other official authorized to administer oaths.
2-18           SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act to
2-19     Section 411.183(b), Government Code, applies only to a license
2-20     renewed on or after September 1, 1999.
2-21           (b)  The director of the Department of Public Safety shall
2-22     establish the procedure required by Section 411.185(e), Government
2-23     Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2000.
2-24           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-3     passage, and it is so enacted.