Bill Text: TX HB3534 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of information regarding suicide prevention and certain state laws applicable to handgun license holders.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3534 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3534-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Morales Shaw, Sherman, Sr., Rose, Lujan, | H.B. No. 3534 | ||
Frazier, et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3534: | |||
By: Burrows | C.S.H.B. No. 3534 |
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relating to the provision of information regarding suicide | ||
prevention and certain state laws applicable to handgun license | ||
holders. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 411.02098 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.02098. SUICIDE PREVENTION INFORMATION. (a) The | ||
department shall post on the department's Internet website and make | ||
available to the public and to firearm retailers a printable | ||
brochure, developed in cooperation with the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission, that includes the following suicide | ||
prevention information: | ||
(1) information regarding: | ||
(A) the warning signs that a person is at risk of | ||
suicide; | ||
(B) suicide prevention; and | ||
(C) state agencies that provide mental health and | ||
suicide prevention services; and | ||
(2) the phone number for the National Suicide | ||
Prevention Lifeline. | ||
(b) Not later than October 1 of each year, the department | ||
shall update the brochure required by Subsection (a). | ||
(c) The department shall provide the brochure required by | ||
Subsection (a) by mail or e-mail to each new applicant for a license | ||
to carry a handgun issued under Subchapter H. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 411.185(d), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) Not later than the 60th day before the expiration date | ||
of the license, the department shall mail or e-mail to each license | ||
holder a written notice of the expiration of the license, a renewal | ||
application form, [ |
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Subsection (c), and the brochure described by Section 411.02098. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |