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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