Bill Text: TX SB987 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to allowing the attorney general to obtain an injunction against a municipality or county that adopts prohibited regulations regarding firearms, ammunition, or firearm supplies.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB987 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB987-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 987 | ||
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| relating to allowing the attorney general to obtain an injunction | ||
| against a municipality or county that adopts prohibited regulations | ||
| regarding firearms, ammunition, or firearm supplies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 229.001, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) The attorney general may bring an action in the name of | ||
| the state to obtain a temporary or permanent injunction against a | ||
| municipality adopting a regulation in violation of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 236.002, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 236.002. FIREARMS; SPORT SHOOTING RANGE. | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including Chapter 251, | ||
| Agriculture Code, a county may not adopt regulations relating to: | ||
| (1) the transfer, private ownership, keeping, | ||
| transportation, licensing, or registration of firearms, | ||
| ammunition, or firearm supplies; or | ||
| (2) the discharge of a firearm at a sport shooting | ||
| range. | ||
| (b) The attorney general may bring an action in the name of | ||
| the state to obtain a temporary or permanent injunction against a | ||
| county adopting a regulation, other than a regulation under Section | ||
| 236.003, in violation of this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 987 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 4, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 6. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 987 passed the House on | ||
| May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
