1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 404
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 1999; February 8, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 March 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; March 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the eligibility of a retired peace officer for a
1-9 license to carry a concealed handgun.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 411.199, Government Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) A person who is licensed as a peace officer under
1-14 Chapter 415 and who has been employed full-time as a peace officer
1-15 by a law enforcement agency may apply for a license under this
1-16 subchapter at any time after [on] retirement. [The application
1-17 must be made not later than the first anniversary after the date of
1-18 retirement.]
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-25 passage, and it is so enacted.
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