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The duty to display your CHL when asked for ID was required in order to pass SB60 in 1995. At that time there was at least some justification for it because LEOs didn't have MDTs and your status as a CHL wasn't presented when dispatch ran your driver's license. Also, CHL was new and the doomsday folks were still predicting slaughter of everyone including COPs.

Much has changed and virtually every officer has your CHL status available either on an MDT when they run your driver's license, or from dispatch when they run it. We also have an excellent 18 year track record for CHLs. We wanted to repeal the duty to display in 2009, but we didn't have the votes. So we did the next best thing and put language in the DPS sunset bill removing the penalty.

As others have noted, the duty to display exists whenever you are armed, not merely when you are carrying under the authority of your CHL. This is different from other Code provisions such as TPC §30.06 since that section applies only when carrying under the authority of your CHL.

Chas.