Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that he would sign a bill that would allow Texans to carry a handgun without a permit, according to the Texas Tribune.

“I support it, and I believe it should reach my desk, and we should have ‘constitutional carry’ in Texas,” Abbott told WBAP radio host Rick Roberts. The measure passed the Texas House, and Senate is debating a similar bill. “Once the Senate passes it out, the House and Senate will convene and work out any differences and get it to my desk. And I’ll be signing it.”

Texas already has one of the loosest gun laws in the country. Still, there was hesitancy from political leaders and law enforcement officials to support permit-less carry, according to ABC News.

“We are fine with law-abiding citizens having guns. But there are still some people who should not be allowed to carry guns in public,” the Texas Municipal Police Association executive director, Kevin Lawrence, told ABC News. “What is going on out there that we need to overhaul a system that works?”

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick previously said that the Senate didn’t have enough votes to pass the legislation, but wants to find a way to get it approved. Patrick created a Senate Special Committee with a majority of members in support of not having a handgun license to carry, as reported by the Texas Tribune. The bill passed the committee in a 5-2 vote, the Hayfree Press reported.

“Lt. Governor Patrick established some additional options to move a bill forward,” Patrick’s senior adviser, Sherry Sylvester, said in a statement to the Tribune. He will continue meeting with law enforcement, gun rights stakeholders and Senators on this issue to find consensus and the votes needed to pass.”