Bill Text: TX HB446 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain conduct with respect to certain instruments designed, made, or adapted for use in striking a person.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-25 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB446 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB446-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain conduct with respect to certain instruments designed, made, or adapted for use in striking a person.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-25 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB446 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB446-Introduced.html
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By: Moody | H.B. No. 446 |
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relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain | ||
conduct with respect to certain instruments designed, made, or | ||
adapted for use in striking a person with a fist. | ||
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; | ||
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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; or | ||
(7) an improvised explosive device. | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 46.01(8), Penal Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 when 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. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |