Bill Text: TX SB439 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of unlawful carrying of weapons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-10 - Co-author authorized [SB439 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB439-Introduced.html
84R5097 JSC-D | ||
By: Hall, et al. | S.B. No. 439 |
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relating to the prosecution of the offense of unlawful carrying of | ||
weapons. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 46.02(a) and (a-1), Penal Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, | ||
knowingly, or recklessly carries on or about his or her person a | ||
handgun, illegal knife, or club when [ |
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(1) on the person's own premises or premises under the | ||
person's control; [ |
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(2) on premises owned by or under the control of | ||
another person, provided that the owner or the person in control of | ||
the premises consents to the carrying of the weapon; | ||
(3) inside of or directly en route to a motor vehicle | ||
or watercraft that is owned by the person or under the person's | ||
control; or | ||
(4) inside of or directly en route to a motor vehicle | ||
or watercraft owned by or under the control of another person, | ||
provided that the owner or the person in control of the motor | ||
vehicle or watercraft consents to the carrying of the weapon. | ||
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person | ||
intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries on or about his or | ||
her person a handgun in a motor vehicle or watercraft that is owned | ||
by the person or under the person's control at any time in which[ |
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Class C misdemeanor that is a violation of a law or ordinance | ||
regulating traffic or boating; | ||
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defined by Section 71.01. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to an | ||
offense under Section 46.02, Penal Code, committed before, on, or | ||
after the effective date of this Act, except that a final conviction | ||
for an offense under that section that exists on the effective date | ||
of this Act is unaffected by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |