Bill Text: TX HB2967 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the unlawful carrying of a handgun in a motor vehicle or watercraft.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 10-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2967 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2967-Comm_Sub.html
87R9603 MEW-F | ||
By: Cason, White, Schaefer, | H.B. No. 2967 | |
Morales of Maverick, et al. |
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relating to the unlawful carrying of a handgun in a motor vehicle or | ||
watercraft. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 46.02(a-1), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person | ||
intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries on or about his or | ||
her person a handgun in a motor vehicle or watercraft that is owned | ||
by the person or under the person's control at any time in which: | ||
(1) the handgun is in plain view, unless the person is | ||
licensed to carry a handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, | ||
Government Code, and the handgun is carried in a shoulder or belt | ||
holster; or | ||
(2) the person [ |
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(A) is engaged in criminal activity, other than a | ||
Class C misdemeanor that is a violation of a law or ordinance | ||
regulating traffic or boating; | ||
(B) is prohibited by law from possessing a | ||
firearm; or | ||
(C) has been previously convicted of an offense | ||
for which the judgment in the case contains an affirmative finding | ||
under Article 42.0197, Code of Criminal Procedure [ |
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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, 2021. |