Bill Text: TX HB873 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain establishments serving the public from restricting a peace officer or special investigator from carrying a weapon on the premises.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB873 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB873-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 873 | ||
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| relating to prohibiting certain establishments serving the public | ||
| from restricting a peace officer or special investigator from | ||
| carrying a weapon on the premises. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 2.1305 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 2.1305. CARRYING WEAPON ON CERTAIN PREMISES. (a) An | ||
| establishment serving the public may not prohibit or otherwise | ||
| restrict a peace officer or special investigator from carrying on | ||
| the establishment's premises a weapon that the peace officer or | ||
| special investigator is otherwise authorized to carry, regardless | ||
| of whether the peace officer or special investigator is engaged in | ||
| the actual discharge of the officer's or investigator's duties | ||
| while carrying the weapon. | ||
| (b) For purposes of this article: | ||
| (1) "Establishment serving the public" means: | ||
| (A) a hotel, motel, or other place of lodging; | ||
| (B) a restaurant or other place where food is | ||
| offered for sale to the public; | ||
| (C) a retail business or other commercial | ||
| establishment or an office building to which the general public is | ||
| invited; | ||
| (D) a sports venue; and | ||
| (E) any other place of public accommodation, | ||
| amusement, convenience, or resort to which the general public or | ||
| any classification of persons from the general public is regularly, | ||
| normally, or customarily invited. | ||
| (2) "Sports venue" means an arena, coliseum, stadium, | ||
| or other type of area or facility that is primarily used or is | ||
| planned for primary use for one or more professional or amateur | ||
| sports or athletics events and for which a fee is charged or is | ||
| planned to be charged for admission to the sports or athletics | ||
| events, other than occasional civic, charitable, or promotional | ||
| events. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred, and | ||
| the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 873 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 873 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 12, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
