Bill Text: TX SB162 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a false statement made to illegally acquire a firearm; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-30 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB162 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB162-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a false statement made to illegally acquire a firearm; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-30 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB162 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB162-Introduced.html
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By: Blanco | S.B. No. 162 |
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relating to a false or misleading statement made to illegally | ||
acquire a firearm; creating a criminal offense. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 46.06(a), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person: | ||
(1) sells, rents, leases, loans, or gives a handgun to | ||
any person knowing that the person to whom the handgun is to be | ||
delivered intends to use it unlawfully or in the commission of an | ||
unlawful act; | ||
(2) intentionally or knowingly sells, rents, leases, | ||
or gives or offers to sell, rent, lease, or give to any child | ||
younger than 18 years of age any firearm, club, or | ||
location-restricted knife; | ||
(3) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly sells a | ||
firearm or ammunition for a firearm to any person who is | ||
intoxicated; | ||
(4) knowingly sells a firearm or ammunition for a | ||
firearm to any person who has been convicted of a felony before the | ||
fifth anniversary of the later of the following dates: | ||
(A) the person's release from confinement | ||
following conviction of the felony; or | ||
(B) the person's release from supervision under | ||
community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision following | ||
conviction of the felony; | ||
(5) sells, rents, leases, loans, or gives a handgun to | ||
any person knowing that an active protective order is directed to | ||
the person to whom the handgun is to be delivered; [ |
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(6) knowingly purchases, rents, leases, or receives as | ||
a loan or gift from another a handgun while an active protective | ||
order is directed to the actor; or | ||
(7) knowingly makes a materially false or misleading | ||
statement in providing information to a person for purposes of | ||
complying with the National Instant Criminal Background Check | ||
system in the manner required by 18 U.S.C. Section 922. | ||
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 occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |