AN ACT
1-1 relating to the eligibility of a retired peace officer for a
1-2 license to carry a concealed handgun.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 411.199, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A person who is licensed as a peace officer under
1-7 Chapter 415 and who has been employed full-time as a peace officer
1-8 by a law enforcement agency may apply for a license under this
1-9 subchapter at any time after [on] retirement. [The application
1-10 must be made not later than the first anniversary after the date of
1-11 retirement.]
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 404 passed the Senate on
March 30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 404 passed the House on
April 16, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, two
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor