Bill Text: TX HB333 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to requiring notice of a hotel's firearms policy and other guest policies; providing a criminal penalty.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB333 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB333-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to requiring notice of a hotel's firearms policy and other guest policies; providing a criminal penalty.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB333 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB333-Introduced.html
| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 333 | |
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| relating to requiring notice of a hotel's firearms policy; | ||
| providing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2155, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER C. FIREARMS POLICY NOTICE | ||
| Sec. 2155.101. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "hotel" has | ||
| the meaning assigned by Section 156.001, Tax Code. | ||
| Sec. 2155.102. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter | ||
| applies only to a hotel that has a policy prohibiting or restricting | ||
| the possession, storage, or transportation of firearms by hotel | ||
| guests. | ||
| Sec. 2155.103. NOTICE REGARDING FIREARMS POLICY. (a) A | ||
| hotel shall post on the hotel's Internet reservation website the | ||
| hotel's policy regarding the possession, storage, and | ||
| transportation of firearms. The hotel shall require the consumer | ||
| to acknowledge that the consumer has read the hotel's firearms | ||
| policy before the consumer finalizes the reservation with the | ||
| hotel. | ||
| (b) A hotel shall include information on how a consumer may | ||
| review the hotel's policy regarding the possession, storage, and | ||
| transportation of firearms if the hotel provides a written | ||
| confirmation or other terms and conditions to the consumer after | ||
| accepting the consumer's hotel reservation by telephone. | ||
| Sec. 2155.104. COURT WARNING; CIVIL PENALTY. (a) A court | ||
| may issue a warning to a hotel for a first violation of this | ||
| subchapter. After receiving a warning for the first violation, the | ||
| hotel is liable to the state for a civil penalty of $200 for each | ||
| subsequent violation. | ||
| (b) The attorney general or an appropriate prosecuting | ||
| attorney may file suit for the issuance of a warning or the | ||
| collection of a civil penalty under this section. | ||
| (c) A civil penalty collected under this section shall be | ||
| sent to the comptroller for deposit in the general revenue fund. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
