Bill Text: TX SB1736 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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
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 | S.B. No. 1736 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2017; March 23, 2017, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 18, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; April 18, 2017, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1736 | By: Hughes |
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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. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN PERSONS WHO ALLOW | ||
HANDGUNS | ||
Sec. 95A.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "license | ||
holder" means a person licensed to carry a handgun under Subchapter | ||
H, Chapter 411, Government Code. | ||
Sec. 95A.002. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN PERSONS WHO | ||
ALLOW HANDGUNS. A person, including a business or other entity, who | ||
owns, controls, or manages property and who has authority to forbid | ||
the carrying of handguns on the property is immune from civil | ||
liability with respect to any claim that is based on the person's | ||
failure to exercise the option to forbid the carrying of handguns by | ||
a license holder on the property by providing notice under Sections | ||
30.06 and 30.07, Penal Code. | ||
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. | ||
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