Bill Text: TX HB3866 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to impose certain requirements for gun show promoters who lease municipal facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Returned to Calendars Committee [HB3866 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3866-Introduced.html
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By: Isaac | H.B. No. 3866 |
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relating to the authority of a municipality to impose certain | ||
requirements for gun show promoters who lease municipal facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 229, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 229.005 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 229.005. CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS FOR GUN SHOW PROMOTERS | ||
PROHIBITED IN MUNICIPAL LEASE AGREEMENTS. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
46.01, Penal Code. | ||
(2) "Gun show" means a temporary event held at a public | ||
facility at which three or more individuals assemble to display and | ||
sell firearms or firearm components to the public. | ||
(3) "Gun show promoter" means a person who organizes, | ||
plans, promotes, or operates a gun show. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality that | ||
leases a public facility to persons for short-term use for shows, | ||
exhibits, or similar purposes may not: | ||
(1) refuse to lease the facility to a gun show promoter | ||
for the purpose of conducting a gun show; | ||
(2) charge a fee to a gun show promoter that is more | ||
than the lowest fee charged to a person to lease the facility for a | ||
purpose other than a gun show; | ||
(3) charge any additional fees, service charges, or | ||
taxes to a gun show promoter that the municipality does not charge | ||
to a person that leases the facility for a purpose other than a gun | ||
show; or | ||
(4) impose any terms, conditions, or requirements on a | ||
gun show promoter that are not imposed on a person that leases the | ||
facility for a purpose other than a gun show. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding any other law, if a municipality leases | ||
a public facility to a gun show promoter for a gun show, the | ||
municipality may not include or enforce a provision in the lease | ||
agreement with the gun show promoter that imposes a condition or | ||
restriction on the transfer or sale of a firearm at the gun show | ||
that is not required by federal or state law. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 229.005(c), Local Government Code, as | ||
added by this Act, applies only to a lease agreement entered into on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |