Bill Text: TX HB4663 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the age at which a person is eligible for a license to carry a handgun.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Community Safety, Select [HB4663 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4663-Introduced.html

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88R12038 JSC-F
By: Dorazio H.B. No. 4663

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the age at which a person is eligible for a license to
carry a handgun.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 411.047(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) Such statistics shall be drawn and reported annually
from the Department of Public Safety computerized criminal history
file on persons 18 [21] years of age and older and shall be compared
in numerical and graphical format to all like offenses committed in
the state for the reporting period as a percentage of the total of
such reported offenses.
SECTION 2. Section 411.172(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A person is eligible for a license to carry a handgun if
the person:
(1) is a legal resident of this state for the six-month
period preceding the date of application under this subchapter or
is otherwise eligible for a license under Section 411.173(a);
(2) is at least 18 [21] years of age;
(3) has not been convicted of a felony;
(4) is not charged with the commission of a Class A or
Class B misdemeanor or equivalent offense, or of an offense under
Section 42.01, Penal Code, or equivalent offense, or of a felony
under an information or indictment;
(5) is not a fugitive from justice for a felony or a
Class A or Class B misdemeanor or equivalent offense;
(6) is not a chemically dependent person;
(7) is not incapable of exercising sound judgment with
respect to the proper use and storage of a handgun;
(8) has not, in the five years preceding the date of
application, been convicted of a Class A or Class B misdemeanor or
equivalent offense or of an offense under Section 42.01, Penal
Code, or equivalent offense;
(9) is fully qualified under applicable federal and
state law to possess [purchase] a handgun;
(10) has not been finally determined to be delinquent
in making a child support payment administered or collected by the
attorney general;
(11) has not been finally determined to be delinquent
in the payment of a tax or other money collected by the comptroller,
the tax collector of a political subdivision of the state, or any
agency or subdivision of the state;
(12) is not currently restricted under a court
protective order or subject to a restraining order affecting the
spousal relationship, other than a restraining order solely
affecting property interests;
(13) has not, in the 10 years preceding the date of
application, been adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent
conduct violating a penal law of the grade of felony; and
(14) has not made any material misrepresentation, or
failed to disclose any material fact, in an application submitted
pursuant to Section 411.174.
SECTION 3. Section 411.179(a), Government Code, as amended
by Chapters 203 (H.B. 918), 383 (S.B. 1134), and 821 (H.B. 2675),
Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is reenacted
and amended to read as follows:
(a) The department by rule shall adopt the form of the
license. A license must include:
(1) a number assigned to the license holder by the
department;
(2) a statement of the period for which the license is
effective;
(3) a photograph of the license holder;
(4) the license holder's full name, date of birth, hair
and eye color, height, weight, and signature;
(5) the license holder's residence address or, as
provided by Subsection (d), the street address of the courthouse in
which the license holder or license holder's spouse or parent
serves as a federal judge or the license holder serves as a state
judge;
(6) the number of a driver's license or an
identification certificate issued to the license holder by the
department;
(7) the designation "VETERAN" if required under
Subsection (e); and
(8) any at-risk designation for which the license
holder has established eligibility under Section 411.184
[(8) if applicable, a protective order designation
under Section 411.1735].
SECTION 4. Section 411.205, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 411.205. REQUIREMENT TO DISPLAY LICENSE. 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[:
[(1)] both the license holder's driver's license or
identification certificate issued by the department and the license
holder's handgun license[; and
[(2) if the license holder's handgun license bears a
protective order designation, a copy of the applicable court order
under which the license holder is protected].
SECTION 5. Sections 411.172(g), (h), and (i) and 411.1735,
Government Code, are repealed.
SECTION 6. A handgun license that bears a protective order
designation under former Section 411.1735, Government Code, as
repealed by this Act, and that is valid on the effective date of
this Act remains valid until the 22nd birthday of the license
holder, regardless of whether the license holder continues to be
protected under a protective order described by former Section
411.172(i), Government Code, as repealed by this Act. A license
holder described by this subsection may apply for a handgun license
that does not bear the protective order designation by using the
renewal procedure under Section 411.185, Government Code,
regardless of whether the license that bears the designation has
expired or is about to expire.
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.