Bill Text: TX HB3619 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to the application of certain concealed handgun license laws to certain current and former statewide elected officials and members of the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Considered in Calendars [HB3619 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB3619-Comm_Sub.html
  82R15606 AJZ-F
 
  By: Miller of Erath H.B. No. 3619
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3619:
 
  By:  Fletcher C.S.H.B. No. 3619
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the application of certain concealed handgun license
  laws to certain current and former statewide elected officials and
  members of the legislature.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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), and (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)  a district attorney, assistant district attorney,
  criminal district attorney, assistant criminal district attorney,
  county attorney, or assistant county attorney;
               (4)  a current or former statewide elected official; or
               (5)  a current or former member of the legislature.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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