Amend CSHB 2730 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered article to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent articles of the bill accordingly:

ARTICLE __.  USE OR DISPLAY UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES OF
AN EXPIRED LICENSE TO CARRY A CONCEALED HANDGUN
	SECTION __.01.  Section 46.15, Penal Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
	(g)  For purposes of Subsection (b)(6), a valid license 
includes an expired license if, before the expiration date of the 
license, the license holder submitted a timely and sufficient 
application for renewal of the license to the Department of Public 
Safety in accordance with Section 411.185, Government Code, and has 
not received notice that the application for renewal has been 
finally determined as provided by Government Code Section 2001.054.
	SECTION __.02.  Section 411.205(a), Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  If a license holder is carrying a handgun on or about the 
license holder's person when a magistrate or a peace officer 
demands that the license holder display identification, the license 
holder shall display both the license holder's driver's license or 
identification certificate issued by the department and the license 
holder's handgun license.  A person who fails or refuses to display 
the person's [license and] identification and handgun license as 
required by this subsection is subject to suspension of the 
person's license as provided by Section 411.187 or, if the license 
is expired, a refusal to renew the person's license for the 
applicable period of suspension provided by that section.