Amend HB 435 (senate committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in amended Section 46.15(a)(6), Penal Code (page 2, line 49), strike "a district attorney" and substitute "the attorney general or a United States attorney, district attorney".

(2)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in amended Section 46.15(a)(7), Penal Code (page 2, line 52), strike "an assistant district attorney" and substitute "an assistant United States attorney, assistant attorney general, assistant district attorney".

(3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 411.179(c), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c)  In adopting the form of the license under Subsection (a), the department shall establish a procedure for the license of a qualified handgun instructor or of the attorney general or a judge, justice, United States attorney, assistant United States attorney, assistant attorney general, prosecuting attorney, or assistant prosecuting attorney, as described by Section 46.15(a)(4), [or] (6), or (7), Penal Code, to indicate on the license the license holder's status as a qualified handgun instructor or as the attorney general or a judge, justice, United States attorney, assistant United States attorney, assistant attorney general, district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney. In establishing the procedure, the department shall require sufficient documentary evidence to establish the license holder's status under this subsection.

SECTION ____.  Section 411.1882(a), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A person who is serving in this state as the attorney general or as a judge or justice of a federal court, as an active judicial officer as defined by Section 411.201, as a United States attorney, assistant United States attorney, assistant attorney general, district attorney, assistant district attorney, criminal district attorney, assistant criminal district attorney, county attorney, or assistant county attorney, as a supervision officer as defined by [Section 2,] Article 42A.001 [42.12], Code of Criminal Procedure, or as a juvenile probation officer may establish handgun proficiency for the purposes of this subchapter by obtaining from a handgun proficiency instructor approved by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement for purposes of Section 1702.1675, Occupations Code, a sworn statement that indicates that the person, during the 12-month period preceding the date of the person's application to the department, demonstrated to the instructor proficiency in the use of handguns.

SECTION ____.  Section 411.201(h), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(h)  The department shall issue a license to carry a handgun under the authority of this subchapter to a United States attorney or an assistant United States attorney, or to an [elected] attorney elected or employed to represent [representing] the state in the prosecution of felony cases, who meets the requirements of this section for an active judicial officer. The department shall waive any fee required for the issuance of an original, duplicate, or renewed license under this subchapter for an applicant who is a United States attorney or an assistant United States attorney or who is an attorney elected or employed to represent the state in the prosecution of felony cases.

SECTION ____.  Section 46.035(h-1), Penal Code, as added by Chapter 1222 (H.B. 2300), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is amended to read as follows:

(h-1)  It is a defense to prosecution under Subsections (b)(1), (2), (4), (5), and (6) [(4)-(6),] and (c) that at the time of the commission of the offense, the actor was:

(1)  a judge or justice of a federal court;

(2)  an active judicial officer, as defined by Section 411.201, Government Code; or

(3)  the attorney general or a United States attorney, assistant United States attorney, assistant attorney general, district attorney, assistant district attorney, criminal district attorney, assistant criminal district attorney, county attorney, or assistant county attorney.

SECTION ____.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over another Act of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes.