By: Paddie (Senate Sponsor - Eltife)	H.B. No. 1376
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
	May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 25, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 25, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the application of certain concealed handgun license
	laws to community supervision and corrections department officers
	and juvenile probation officers; reducing a fee.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 411.1882(a), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a)  A person who is serving in this state as a judge or
	justice of a federal court, as an active judicial officer[,] as
	defined by Section 411.201, [or] as a district attorney, assistant
	district attorney, criminal district attorney, assistant criminal
	district attorney, county attorney, or assistant county attorney,
	as a supervision officer as defined by Section 2, Article 42.12,
	Code of Criminal Procedure, or as a juvenile probation officer may
	establish handgun proficiency for the purposes of this subchapter
	by obtaining from a handgun proficiency instructor approved by the
	Texas Commission on Law Enforcement for purposes of Section
	1702.1675, Occupations Code, a sworn statement that indicates that
	the person, during the 12-month period preceding the date of the
	person's application to the department, demonstrated to the
	instructor proficiency in the use of handguns.
	SECTION 2.  Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 411.1953 to read as follows:
	Sec. 411.1953.  REDUCTION OF FEES FOR COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
	AND CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT OFFICERS AND JUVENILE PROBATION
	OFFICERS. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
	an applicant who is serving in this state as a supervision officer,
	as defined by Section 2, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure,
	or as a juvenile probation officer shall pay a fee of $25 for the
	issuance of an original or renewed license under this subchapter.
	SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a concealed handgun license issued or renewed on or after the
	effective date of this Act. A concealed handgun license issued or
	renewed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law
	in effect on the date the license was issued or renewed, and the
	former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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