Bill Text: TX HB3508 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance or renewal of a license to carry a handgun.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB3508 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3508-Introduced.html
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By: Talarico | H.B. No. 3508 |
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relating to the issuance or renewal of a license to carry a handgun. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 411.177(a) and (b), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
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handgun to an applicant if the applicant meets all the eligibility | ||
requirements and submits all the application materials. The | ||
department shall administer the licensing procedures in good faith | ||
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the basis of a capricious or arbitrary decision by the department. | ||
A denial must be supported by a preponderance of the evidence. | ||
(b) The department shall, not later than the 60th day after | ||
the date of the receipt by the director's designee of the completed | ||
application materials: | ||
(1) issue the license; | ||
(2) notify the applicant in writing that the | ||
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(3) notify the applicant in writing that the | ||
department is unable to make a determination regarding the issuance | ||
or denial of a license to the applicant within the 60-day period | ||
prescribed by this subsection and include in that notification an | ||
explanation of the reason for the inability and an estimation of the | ||
amount of time the department will need to make the determination. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 411.185(e), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
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license holder who meets all the eligibility requirements to | ||
continue to hold a license and submits all the renewal materials | ||
described by Subsection (a). Not later than the 45th day after | ||
receipt of the renewal materials, the department shall issue the | ||
renewed license or notify the license holder in writing that the | ||
department denied the license holder's renewal application. A | ||
denial must be supported by a preponderance of the evidence. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an applicant for an original or renewed license to carry a | ||
handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, who submits the application on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |