Bill Text: TX HB3124 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to carrying a handgun on the premises of a public employer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-19 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB3124 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3124-Introduced.html
| By: Vasut | H.B. No. 3124 | |
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| relating to carrying a handgun on the premises of a public employer. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 411.203, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.203. RIGHTS OF EMPLOYERS. (a) This subchapter | ||
| does not prevent or otherwise limit the right of a [ |
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| private employer to prohibit persons who are licensed under this | ||
| subchapter or not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law from | ||
| possessing a firearm from carrying a handgun on the premises of the | ||
| business. | ||
| (b) An employer that is a governmental entity may not | ||
| prohibit an employee of the entity from carrying a handgun that the | ||
| employee is not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law from | ||
| carrying: | ||
| (1) on premises owned or leased by the governmental | ||
| entity; | ||
| (2) while performing the employee's duties on premises | ||
| other than premises owned or leased by the governmental entity; or | ||
| (3) in any other location or circumstance in which the | ||
| employee would otherwise be permitted to carry a handgun under law. | ||
| (c) In this section, "premises" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 46.035(f) [ |
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| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
