Bill Text: TX HB801 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the discharge of a firearm across the property line of a school.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-08 - Referred to Agriculture, Rural Affairs & Homeland Security [HB801 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB801-Engrossed.html
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| By: Munoz, Jr., Guillen, Canales, Lucio III | H.B. No. 801 | |
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| relating to the discharge of a firearm across the property line of a | ||
| school. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 62, Parks and Wildlife | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 62.0122 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 62.0122. HUNTER AWARENESS OF NEARBY SCHOOL. (a) In | ||
| this section, "school" means a private or public elementary or | ||
| secondary school. | ||
| (b) At the request of a school district, the Texas | ||
| Department of Transportation shall: | ||
| (1) place signs in appropriate places along state or | ||
| federal highways to alert hunters to the proximity of a school; and | ||
| (2) act jointly with municipalities and counties, as | ||
| appropriate, to place signs along roadways maintained and operated | ||
| by a municipality or county to alert hunters to the proximity of a | ||
| school. | ||
| (c) A school district that requests a sign under Subsection | ||
| (b) must pay the costs of the production and placement of the sign. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 62.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The department may establish and administer a statewide | ||
| hunter education program. The program must include but is not | ||
| limited to instruction concerning: | ||
| (1) the safe handling and use of firearms, archery | ||
| equipment, and crossbows; | ||
| (2) wildlife conservation and management; | ||
| (3) hunting laws and applicable rules and regulations; | ||
| and | ||
| (4) hunting safety and ethics, including landowners' | ||
| rights and a hunter's personal responsibility as it applies to the | ||
| discharge of a firearm. | ||
| (b-1) The department shall include, in a hunter education | ||
| program established under this section, in any written or | ||
| Internet-based information produced by the department for the | ||
| public that relates to hunting, and in any curricular materials | ||
| that relate to hunting, information on: | ||
| (1) awareness of school property and other | ||
| surroundings and the danger of discharging a firearm across the | ||
| property line of a school; and | ||
| (2) personal responsibility as it applies to the | ||
| discharge of a firearm. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
