Bill Text: TX HB601 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-04 - Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs [HB601 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB601-Introduced.html

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89R2849 CJD-D
By: Lalani H.B. No. 601

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of
making a firearm accessible to a child.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 46.13(d), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(d) An [Except as provided by Subsection (e), an] offense
under this section is a Class A [C] misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. Section 46.13(e), Penal Code, is repealed.
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, 2025.