Bill Text: TX HB466 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to limiting the locations in which a license holder may openly carry a handgun; restricting an exception to a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-16 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB466 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB466-Introduced.html
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By: Anchia | H.B. No. 466 |
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relating to limiting the locations in which a license holder may | ||
openly carry a handgun; restricting an exception to a criminal | ||
offense. | ||
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. MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF OPENLY CARRYING | ||
HANDGUN. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), the governing body of a | ||
municipality with a population of more than 750,000 may adopt an | ||
ordinance prohibiting a person who holds a license to carry a | ||
handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, from | ||
carrying a partially or wholly visible handgun within the corporate | ||
boundaries of the municipality. | ||
(b) The governing body of a municipality may adopt an | ||
ordinance under Subsection (a) only if a majority of the | ||
municipality's voters voting at an election held for that purpose | ||
approve a proposition to authorize the governing body to adopt the | ||
ordinance. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 46.035, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (m) to read as follows: | ||
(m) The exception provided by Subsection (a) is not | ||
available to a license holder who is carrying a partially or wholly | ||
visible handgun in a municipality with an ordinance that was | ||
adopted under Section 229.005, Local Government Code, and is in | ||
effect at the time of the offense. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act in adding | ||
Section 46.035(m), Penal Code, 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, 2017. |