Bill Text: TX HB1143 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the transportation or storage of a handgun or other firearm or ammunition by a handgun license holder in a school parking area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1143-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1143 |
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relating to the transportation or storage of a handgun or other | ||
firearm or ammunition by a handgun license holder in a school | ||
parking area. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.0815(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
not prohibit a person, including a school employee, who holds a | ||
license to carry a handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, | ||
Government Code, from transporting or storing a handgun or other | ||
firearm or ammunition in a locked, privately owned or leased motor | ||
vehicle in a parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area | ||
provided by the district or charter school and may not regulate the | ||
manner in which the handgun, firearm, or ammunition is stored in the | ||
vehicle, provided that the handgun, firearm, or ammunition is not | ||
in plain view. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1143 was passed by the House on May | ||
10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 97, Nays 37, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1143 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 11. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |