Bill Text: TX HB2960 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the locations in which carrying certain weapons is prohibited and the applicability of a defense to prosecution for an offense relating to carrying a handgun in certain prohibited locations and associated notice requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2960 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2960-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the locations in which carrying certain weapons is prohibited and the applicability of a defense to prosecution for an offense relating to carrying a handgun in certain prohibited locations and associated notice requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2960 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2960-Introduced.html
88R11734 CJD-F | ||
By: Cain | H.B. No. 2960 |
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relating to the applicability of a defense to prosecution for an | ||
offense relating to carrying a handgun in certain prohibited | ||
locations and to repealing associated notice requirements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 46.15(n) and (o), Penal Code, are | ||
repealed. | ||
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, 2023. |