S.B. No. 299

	AN ACT
	relating to the intentional display of a handgun by a person
	licensed to carry a concealed handgun.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (h), Section 46.035, Penal
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A license holder commits an offense if the license
	holder carries a handgun on or about the license holder's person
	under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code,
	and intentionally displays [fails to conceal] the handgun in plain
	view of another person in a public place.
	(h)  It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a) that
	the actor, at the time of the commission of the offense, displayed
	the handgun under circumstances in which the actor would have been
	justified in the use of force or deadly force under Chapter 9.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only to
	an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  An
	offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed
	by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the
	former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of
	this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
	this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 299 passed the Senate on
	April 4, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 28, Nays 2.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 299 passed the House on
	May 6, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 6, one present
	not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
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	Date
	______________________________
	Governor