Bill Text: TX SB459 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation or taxation of firearms, air guns, knives, or ammunition by a municipality or county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-16 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [SB459 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB459-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation or taxation of firearms, air guns, knives, or ammunition by a municipality or county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-16 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [SB459 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB459-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huffines, Perry | S.B. No. 459 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 11, 2017; February 6, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
May 8, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
Nays 1; May 8, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the regulation or taxation of firearms, air guns, | ||
knives, or ammunition by a municipality or county. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 229.001, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including Section 43.002 | ||
of this code and Chapter 251, Agriculture Code, a municipality may | ||
not adopt or enforce regulations relating to: | ||
(1) the transfer, sale, purchase, private ownership, | ||
keeping, transportation, manufacture, licensing, or registration | ||
of firearms, air guns, knives, ammunition, or firearm or air gun | ||
supplies; or | ||
(2) the discharge of a firearm or air gun at a sport | ||
shooting range. | ||
(a-1) A municipality may not impose a tax on firearms, air | ||
guns, knives, ammunition, or firearm or air gun supplies, other | ||
than a tax authorized by state law. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 236.002, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including Chapter 251, | ||
Agriculture Code, a county may not adopt or enforce regulations | ||
relating to: | ||
(1) the transfer, sale, purchase, private ownership, | ||
keeping, transportation, manufacture, licensing, or registration | ||
of firearms, air guns, knives, ammunition, or firearm or air gun | ||
supplies; or | ||
(2) the discharge of a firearm or air gun at a sport | ||
shooting range. | ||
(a-1) A county may not impose a tax on firearms, air guns, | ||
knives, ammunition, or firearm or air gun supplies, other than a tax | ||
authorized by state law. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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