Bill Text: TX SB1944 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the disposition of a firearm seized from certain persons with mental illness.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1944 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1944-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Huffman | S.B. No. 1944 | |
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| relating to the disposition of a firearm seized from certain | ||
| persons with mental illness. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Articles 18.191(c) and (d), Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Not later than the 30th day after the date a firearm | ||
| subject to disposition under this article is seized, the law | ||
| enforcement agency holding the firearm shall contact the court in | ||
| the county having jurisdiction to order commitment under Chapter | ||
| 574, Health and Safety Code, and request the disposition of the | ||
| case. Not later than the 30th day after the date of this request, | ||
| the clerk of the court shall advise the requesting agency whether | ||
| the person taken into custody was released under Section 573.023 or | ||
| 574.028, Health and Safety Code, or was ordered to receive | ||
| inpatient mental health services under Section 574.034 or 574.035, | ||
| Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (d) Not later than the 30th day after the date the clerk of | ||
| the court informs a law enforcement agency holding a firearm | ||
| subject to disposition under this article that the person taken | ||
| into custody was released under Section 573.023 or 574.028, Health | ||
| and Safety Code, the law enforcement agency shall: | ||
| (1) conduct a check of state and national criminal | ||
| history record information to verify whether the person may | ||
| lawfully possess a firearm under 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g); and | ||
| (2) provide written notice to the person by certified | ||
| mail that the firearm may be returned to the person on verification | ||
| under Subdivision (1) that the person may lawfully possess the | ||
| firearm. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
