Bill Text: TX HB1819 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain conduct with respect to a firearm silencer.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1819 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1819-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain conduct with respect to a firearm silencer.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1819 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1819-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Springer, Dale, Canales, Moody, | H.B. No. 1819 | ||
Capriglione, et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1819: | |||
By: Moody | C.S.H.B. No. 1819 |
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relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain | ||
conduct with respect to a firearm silencer. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 46.05(a) and (e), Penal Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally | ||
or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or | ||
sells: | ||
(1) any of the following items, unless the item is | ||
registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer | ||
Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and | ||
Explosives or classified as a curio or relic by the United States | ||
Department of Justice: | ||
(A) an explosive weapon; | ||
(B) a machine gun; or | ||
(C) a short-barrel firearm; [ |
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(2) knuckles; | ||
(3) armor-piercing ammunition; | ||
(4) a chemical dispensing device; | ||
(5) a zip gun; [ |
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(6) a tire deflation device; or | ||
(7) a firearm silencer, unless the firearm silencer is | ||
classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of | ||
Justice or the actor otherwise possesses, manufactures, | ||
transports, repairs, or sells the firearm silencer in compliance | ||
with federal law. | ||
(e) An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (3), (4), [ |
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or (7) is a felony of the third degree. An offense under Subsection | ||
(a)(6) is a state jail felony. An offense under Subsection (a)(2) | ||
is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |