By: Whitmire  S.B. No. 835
         (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2007; March 7, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  April 2, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
  Nays 0; April 2, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to exempting certain federal judges from certain
  procedural requirements for obtaining or renewing a concealed
  handgun license.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section
  411.201, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (1)  "Active judicial officer" means:
                     (A)  a person serving as a judge or justice of the
  supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, a court of appeals, a
  district court, a criminal district court, a constitutional county
  court, a statutory county court, a justice court, or a municipal
  court; or
                     (B)  a federal judge who is a resident of this
  state.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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