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


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
  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.
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