By: Schaefer, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hughes)	H.B. No. 1407
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 2021;
	April 19, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 4, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 4, 2021, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the carrying of a handgun by a license holder in a motor
	vehicle.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 46.035(a), Penal Code, is 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 the handgun in plain view of another
	person in a public place.  It is an exception to the application of
	this subsection that the handgun was partially or wholly visible
	but was:
	(1)  carried in a shoulder or belt holster by the
	license holder; or
	(2)  in a holster, and the handgun and the license
	holder were in a motor vehicle.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an offense committed on or after January 1, 2022.  An offense
	committed before January 1, 2022, 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 January 1, 2022, if any element of
	the offense occurred before that date.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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