By Armbrister                                          S.B. No. 404
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the eligibility of a retired peace officer for a
 1-3     license to carry a concealed handgun.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 411.199(a), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A person who is licensed as a peace officer under
 1-8     Chapter 415 and who has been employed full-time as a peace officer
 1-9     by a law enforcement agency may apply for a license under this
1-10     subchapter at any time after [on] retirement.  [The application
1-11     must be made not later than the first anniversary after the date of
1-12     retirement.]
1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.