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.