Bill Text: TX SB618 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the liability of certain property owners who allow handguns to be carried on certain property.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-13 - Referred to State Affairs [SB618 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB618-Introduced.html
| By: Estes | S.B. No. 618 | |
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| relating to the liability of certain property owners who allow | ||
| handguns to be carried on certain property. | ||
| 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. GUN-FREE ZONE REDUCTION ACT | ||
| Sec. 95A.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "License holder" means a person licensed under | ||
| Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code. | ||
| (2) "Non-prohibited property" means property on which | ||
| the carrying of a handgun by a license holder is not prohibited | ||
| pursuant to Sections 46.03 or 46.035, Penal Code. | ||
| Sec. 95A.002. NO CAUSE OF ACTION FOR ALLOWING HANDGUNS ON | ||
| CERTAIN PROPERTY. There shall be no cause of action against an | ||
| owner or lessee of non-prohibited property based on the owner's or | ||
| lessee's decision not to forbid the carrying of handguns on the | ||
| non-prohibited property by giving notice pursuant to Sections 30.06 | ||
| or 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. | ||
