Bill Text: TX SB1736 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1736 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1736-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hughes, et al. | S.B. No. 1736 | |
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relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be | ||
carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 95A to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 95A. ACTIONS INVOLVING THE CARRYING OF HANDGUNS ON | ||
PROPERTY | ||
Sec. 95A.001. EVIDENCE OF FAILURE TO FORBID HANDGUNS. The | ||
fact that a card, sign, or other document described by Section | ||
30.06(c)(3) or 30.07(c)(3), Penal Code, is not posted on the | ||
property of a business or any other evidence that a person failed to | ||
exercise the person's option to forbid the carrying of a handgun by | ||
a license holder on the property: | ||
(1) is not admissible as evidence in a trial on the | ||
merits in an action: | ||
(A) against a person, including a business or | ||
other entity, who owns, controls, or manages the property; and | ||
(B) in which the cause of action arises from an | ||
injury sustained on the property; and | ||
(2) does not support a cause of action described by | ||
Subdivision (1) against a person described by Subdivision (1). | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 95A, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, | ||
as added by this Act, does not apply to a cause of action that | ||
accrued before the effective date of this Act. A cause of action | ||
that accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law applicable to the cause of action immediately before that | ||
date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |