Bill Text: TX HB349 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain parts designed to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-19 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB349 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB349-Introduced.html
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By: Blanco | H.B. No. 349 |
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relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the | ||
possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain | ||
parts designed to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic | ||
rifle. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 46.05(a) and (e), Penal Code, as | ||
amended by Chapters 155 (H.B. 1819) and 814 (H.B. 913), Acts of the | ||
85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, are reenacted and amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally | ||
or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or | ||
sells: | ||
(1) any of the following items, unless the item is | ||
registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer | ||
Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and | ||
Explosives or otherwise not subject to that registration | ||
requirement or unless the item is classified as a curio or relic by | ||
the United States Department of Justice: | ||
(A) an explosive weapon; | ||
(B) a machine gun; or | ||
(C) a short-barrel firearm; | ||
(2) knuckles; | ||
(3) armor-piercing ammunition; | ||
(4) a chemical dispensing device; | ||
(5) a zip gun; | ||
(6) a tire deflation device; [ |
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(7) a firearm silencer, unless the firearm silencer is | ||
classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of | ||
Justice or the actor otherwise possesses, manufactures, | ||
transports, repairs, or sells the firearm silencer in compliance | ||
with federal law; | ||
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(9) a part or combination of parts that is designed and | ||
functions to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but | ||
does not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun. | ||
(e) An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (3), (4), (5), [ |
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(7), or (8) is a felony of the third degree. An offense under | ||
Subsection (a)(6) is a state jail felony. An offense under | ||
Subsection (a)(2) or (9) is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act controls | ||
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |