Bill Text: TX HB316 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a public awareness campaign on firearm safety and suicide prevention.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-11 - Considered in Calendars [HB316 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB316-Comm_Sub.html
86R19700 ADM-D | |||
By: Howard, Goodwin, Miller, et al. | H.B. No. 316 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 316: | |||
By: Goodwin | C.S.H.B. No. 316 |
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relating to a public awareness campaign on firearm safety and | ||
suicide prevention. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 411.210 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.210. FIREARM SAFETY AND SUICIDE PREVENTION PUBLIC | ||
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN. (a) The department, in conjunction with the | ||
Department of State Health Services, the Parks and Wildlife | ||
Department, and other appropriate agencies, shall develop and | ||
implement a public awareness campaign designed to encourage firearm | ||
safety and to improve public awareness on the topics of: | ||
(1) prevention of firearm accidents involving | ||
children; | ||
(2) suicide prevention; and | ||
(3) the safe handling and storage of firearms. | ||
(b) In implementing the campaign, the department may engage | ||
in online advocacy, issue public service announcements, and | ||
distribute materials that cover the topics described by Subsection | ||
(a). The department may publish its own materials on those topics | ||
or may distribute materials published by firearm safety education | ||
programs that seek to encourage firearm owners to embrace the | ||
importance of firearm storage. | ||
(c) The department may pay the costs of the campaign and its | ||
administration from: | ||
(1) gifts, grants, or donations; | ||
(2) matching funds; and | ||
(3) other funds made available for that purpose, | ||
including available department revenue. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |