Bill Text: TX HB3065 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the disposition of a firearm surrendered through a firearm buyback program administered by certain local law enforcement agencies.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-20 - Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs [HB3065 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3065-Introduced.html
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| By: Anchía | H.B. No. 3065 | |
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| relating to the disposition of a firearm surrendered through a | ||
| firearm buyback program administered by certain local law | ||
| enforcement agencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle C, Title 11, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 366 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 366. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FIREARM BUYBACK | ||
| PROGRAMS | ||
| Sec. 366.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Firearm buyback program" means a program under | ||
| which a local law enforcement agency offers a payment in exchange | ||
| for the surrender of a firearm to the agency. | ||
| (2) "Local law enforcement agency" means a municipal | ||
| police department or sheriff's department. | ||
| Sec. 366.002. DISPOSITION OF SURRENDERED FIREARM. (a) | ||
| Except as provided by Subsection (b), a local law enforcement | ||
| agency that receives a firearm surrendered through a firearm | ||
| buyback program shall ensure that all firearms received through the | ||
| firearm buyback program are destroyed. For purposes of this | ||
| section, destruction of a firearm means at a minimum: | ||
| (1) to completely melt, shred, or crush the firearm | ||
| receiver, frame, scope, and all other component parts of the | ||
| firearm; or | ||
| (2) to cut each of the following in at least three | ||
| critical locations: | ||
| (A) the firearm receiver; and | ||
| (B) any other component part of the firearm that | ||
| is similar to or exceeds the size of the receiver. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a local law enforcement | ||
| agency may sell to a person a firearm received through a program | ||
| described by this section only if the agency: | ||
| (1) requests that a firearms dealer licensed under 18 | ||
| U.S.C. Section 923 conduct a national instant criminal background | ||
| check of the person in the manner required by 18 U.S.C. Section 922; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) uses the results of the background check to verify | ||
| that the person to whom the firearm is being sold may lawfully | ||
| possess a firearm. | ||
| (c) On a finding by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement | ||
| that the chief administrator of a local law enforcement agency | ||
| intentionally failed to destroy a firearm in accordance with this | ||
| section, the commission shall begin disciplinary procedures | ||
| against the chief administrator. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
