By: Carona	S.B. No. 231
	(In the Senate-Filed January22,2013; January29,2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
	March 18, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 18, 2013,
	sent to printer.)
	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 231	By:  Schwertner

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the applicability of certain concealed handgun laws to
	certain associate judges and other judicial personnel.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Subsection (a), Section
	411.201, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(1)  "Active judicial officer" means:
	(A)  a person serving as a judge or justice of the
	supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, a court of appeals, a
	district court, a criminal district court, a constitutional county
	court, a statutory county court, a justice court, or a municipal
	court;
	(B)  a federal judge who is a resident of this
	state; or
	(C)  a person appointed and serving as:
	(i)  an associate judge under Chapter 201,
	Family Code, or Chapter 54 or 54A; or
	(ii)  a master or magistrate under Chapter
	54.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an application to obtain or renew a license to carry a concealed
	handgun submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. An
	application submitted before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect when the application was submitted,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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