CCL stands for CAN'T Carry License

When Texas legistators gave employers the right to restrict CCL holders from bringing weapons onto their premises that was a good thing. Employeers should have that right. But our legislators failed to correctly define premises.
What is inside my vehicle is inside an extension of my residence, or my mobile storage building as my wife calls it. I have jumper cables, sockets & wrenches, a circular saw, hammer, level, drill, and 9mm handgun secured in my vehicle. These are all tools, the later being the tool I use for personal security.
If I step out of my vehicle onto my employer's parking lot with any one of these tools in my hand, I have brought it onto his premises. If I drive into his parking lot and leave my tools secured in the vehicle they are still in my mobile storage building not on his premises.
By not allowing the storage of a handgun in the vehicle, it has given employers the right to negate a CCL holders right to carry to and from work. They do not provide a hitchin' post to check your guns on when you come into town. So if you can't leave them in your vehicle you can't carry to and from work.
Legislators may have come to the realization that they made a mistake and are trying to correct it and give us back the right to carry if so licensed with atleast six peices of legistation addressing this issue this session. But everyone seems to have signed on to the wrong one. They only want to give their constituants the impression that they are helping. While all of these bills that I have read give CCL holders back the right to carry to and from home to work HB220 turns right around and gives the employer back the right to cancel your CCL by putting up a fence and security camera. Now we can't carry to and from again.
CCL holders need to urge your representatives to drop HB220 and support HB1037 or one of the others that will give you back that right then protect it.