Bill Amendment: TX HB1927 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Relating to provisions governing the carrying of a firearm by a person who is 21 years of age or older and not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law from possessing the firearm and to other provisions related to the carrying, possessing, transporting, or storing of a firearm or other weapon; creating criminal offenses.

Status: 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1927 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1927-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F16-Eckhardt.html

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Amend HB 1927 (senate committee report) in SECTION 6 of the bill as follows:

(1)  In added Section 411.02096(a), Government Code (page 3, between lines 35 and 36), add the following appropriately numbered subdivisions to that subsection and renumber subsequent subdivisions of that subsection accordingly:

(__)  the number of criminal and accidental shootings that occurred in this state;

(__)  the number of encounters between a law enforcement officer and a person who was in unlawful possession of a firearm that occurred in this state;

(__)  the total number of persons in this state who are prohibited from possessing a firearm under state or federal law, including the number of persons:

(A)  convicted of a felony under Section 46.04, Penal Code;

(B)  convicted of an offense under Section 22.01, Penal Code, that is punishable as a Class A misdemeanor and that involves a member of the person's family or household;

(C)  subject to an order described by Section 46.04(c), Penal Code; and

(D)  who are prohibited from possessing a firearm under 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g), including persons adjudicated to be mentally incompetent;

(2)  Strike added Section 411.02096(d), Government Code (page 3, line 47).