Bill Text: TX HB2298 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain public places from excluding peace officers or special investigators from carrying weapons on the premises.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2298 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2298-Introduced.html
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By: Pickett | H.B. No. 2298 |
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relating to prohibiting certain public places from excluding peace | ||
officers or special investigators from carrying weapons on the | ||
premises. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Article 2.1305 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 2.1305. CARRYING WEAPON ON CERTAIN PREMISES. (a) An | ||
establishment serving the public may not prohibit or otherwise | ||
restrict a peace officer or special investigator from carrying on | ||
its premises a weapon that the peace officer or special | ||
investigator is otherwise authorized to carry, regardless of | ||
whether the peace officer or special investigator is engaged in the | ||
actual discharge of the officer's or investigator's duties while | ||
carrying the weapon. | ||
(b) For purposes of this article: | ||
(1) "Establishment serving the public" means: | ||
(A) a hotel, motel, or other place of lodging; | ||
(B) a restaurant or other place where food is | ||
offered for sale to the public; | ||
(C) a retail business or other commercial | ||
establishment or an office building to which the general public is | ||
invited; | ||
(D) a sports venue; and | ||
(E) any other place of public accommodation, | ||
amusement, convenience, or resort to which the general public or | ||
any classification of persons from the general public is regularly, | ||
normally, or customarily invited. | ||
(2) "Sports venue" means an arena, coliseum, stadium, | ||
or other type of area or facility that is primarily used or is | ||
planned for primary use for one or more professional or amateur | ||
sports or athletics events and for which a fee is charged or is | ||
planned to be charged for admission to the sports or athletics | ||
events, other than occasional civic, charitable, or promotional | ||
events. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |