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
  88R24441 MZM-D
 
  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
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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, [and] the informational form described by
  Subsection (c), and the brochure described by Section 411.02098.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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