Bill Text: TX HB482 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 482 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a person following the person's conviction of certain family violence misdemeanors.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Community Safety, Select [HB482 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB482-Introduced.html

	88R3351 JRR-D

	By: Meza	H.B. No. 482



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a
	person following the person's conviction of certain family violence
	misdemeanors.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 46.04(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
	as follows:
	(b) A person who has been convicted of an offense under
	Section 22.01, punishable as a [~~Class A~~] misdemeanor and committed
	against an individual whose relationship to or association with the
	person is described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005,
	Family Code [~~involving a member of the person's family or~~
	~~household~~], commits an offense if the person possesses a firearm
	before the fifth anniversary of the later of:
	(1) the date of the person's release from confinement
	following conviction of the misdemeanor; or
	(2) the date of the person's release from community
	supervision following conviction of the misdemeanor.
	SECTION 2. 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 was
	committed before that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.