{"id":600561,"date":"2017-03-27T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=600561"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:46:00","slug":"texas-senate-approves-big-cuts-to-statewide-gun-license-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=600561","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate Approves Big Cuts to Statewide Gun License Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Robert-Nichols2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Robert-Nichols2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-431334\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Texas Senate has approved a bill sharply reducing gun license fees. Jacksonville Republican Senator Robert Nichols originally sought to scrap the full $140 fee for first-time licenses and the $70 charge for 5-year license renewals. But doing so would have cost Texas $55-plus million during a two-year state budget cycle. Instead, Nichols proposed reducing the first-time and renewal fee to $40 each. That means the bill will cost Texas about $15 million annually. It passed 26-5 Monday, and heads to the state House.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gun advocates say Texas&#8217; current fees are among America&#8217;s highest, and senators said classes in Houston and elsewhere have begun offering instruction needed to obtain Florida gun licenses. That&#8217;s because that state has lower fees, and Texas has a reciprocal agreement recognizing gun permits issued there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Texas Senate has approved a bill sharply reducing gun license fees. Jacksonville Republican Senator Robert Nichols originally sought to scrap the full $140 fee for first-time licenses and the $70 charge for 5-year license renewals. But doing so would have cost Texas $55-plus million during a two-year state budget cycle. Instead, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=600561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Senate Approves Big Cuts to Statewide Gun License Fees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":431334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 03:44:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608273,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600561\/revisions\/608273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/431334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}