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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