Bill Text: TX HB3030 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the reporting of certain information for purposes of a federal firearm background check.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-25 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB3030 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3030-Introduced.html
  86R11592 LHC-D
 
  By: Flynn H.B. No. 3030
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the reporting of certain information for purposes of a
  federal firearm background check.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 411.052(a), (b), and (e), Government
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  In this section:
               (1)  "Family violence misdemeanor" means a misdemeanor
  crime of domestic violence under 18 U.S.C. Section 921.
               (2)  "Federal[, "federal] prohibited person
  information" means information that identifies an individual as:
                     (A) [(1)]  a person ordered by a court to receive
  inpatient mental health services under Chapter 574, Health and
  Safety Code;
                     (B) [(2)]  a person acquitted in a criminal case
  by reason of insanity or lack of mental responsibility, regardless
  of whether the person is ordered by a court to receive inpatient
  treatment or residential care under Chapter 46C, Code of Criminal
  Procedure;
                     (C) [(3)]  a person determined to have
  intellectual disabilities [mental retardation] and committed by a
  court for long-term placement in a residential care facility under
  Chapter 593, Health and Safety Code;
                     (D) [(4)]  an incapacitated adult individual for
  whom a court has appointed a guardian of the individual under Title
  3, Estates Code, based on the determination that the person lacks
  the mental capacity to manage the person's affairs; [or]
                     (E) [(5)]  a person determined to be incompetent
  to stand trial under Chapter 46B, Code of Criminal Procedure;
                     (F)  a person convicted of or placed on deferred
  adjudication community supervision for a felony;
                     (G)  a person convicted of or placed on deferred
  adjudication community supervision for a family violence
  misdemeanor;
                     (H)  a person subject to a protective order under
  Chapter 85, Family Code; or
                     (I)  a person subject to a magistrate's order for
  emergency protection under Article 17.292, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, based on an arrest for an offense involving family
  violence.
         (b)  The department by rule shall establish a procedure to
  promptly provide federal prohibited person information to the
  Federal Bureau of Investigation for use with the National Instant
  Criminal Background Check System.  Except as otherwise provided by
  state law, the department may disseminate federal prohibited person
  information under this subsection only to the extent necessary to
  allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to collect and maintain a
  list of persons who are prohibited under federal law from engaging
  in certain activities with respect to a firearm.
         (e)  The department by rule shall establish a procedure to
  correct department records and transmit those corrected records to
  the Federal Bureau of Investigation when a person provides:
               (1)  a copy of a judicial order or finding that a person
  is no longer an incapacitated adult or is entitled to relief from
  disabilities under Section 574.088, Health and Safety Code; [or]
               (2)  proof that the person has obtained notice of
  relief from disabilities under 18 U.S.C. Section 925;
               (3)  proof that the person is no longer ineligible to
  possess a firearm based on the commission of a felony or a family
  violence misdemeanor; or
               (4)  proof that the person is no longer subject to a
  protective order under Chapter 85, Family Code, or a magistrate's
  order for emergency protection under Article 17.292, Code of
  Criminal Procedure.
         SECTION 2.  Section 411.0521(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The clerk of the court shall prepare and forward to the
  department the information described by Subsection (b) not later
  than four hours [the 30th day] after the time [date] the court:
               (1)  orders a person to receive inpatient mental health
  services under Chapter 574, Health and Safety Code;
               (2)  acquits a person in a criminal case by reason of
  insanity or lack of mental responsibility, regardless of whether
  the person is ordered to receive inpatient treatment or residential
  care under Chapter 46C, Code of Criminal Procedure;
               (3)  commits a person determined to have intellectual
  disabilities [mental retardation] for long-term placement in a
  residential care facility under Chapter 593, Health and Safety
  Code;
               (4)  appoints a guardian of the incapacitated adult
  individual under Title 3, Estates Code, based on the determination
  that the person lacks the mental capacity to manage the person's
  affairs;
               (5)  determines a person is incompetent to stand trial
  under Chapter 46B, Code of Criminal Procedure; [or]
               (6)  finds a person is entitled to relief from
  disabilities under Section 574.088, Health and Safety Code;
               (7)  enters a judgment of conviction or an order of
  deferred adjudication community supervision with respect to a
  felony;
               (8)  enters a judgment of conviction or an order of
  deferred adjudication community supervision with respect to a
  family violence misdemeanor as defined by Section 411.052;
               (9)  issues a protective order under Chapter 85, Family
  Code; or
               (10)  issues a magistrate's order for emergency
  protection under Article 17.292, Code of Criminal Procedure, based
  on an arrest for an offense involving family violence.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a judgment or order entered or issued on or after the effective
  date of this Act. A judgment or order entered or issued before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the judgment or order was entered or issued, and the former law
  is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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