Bill Text: TX HB1126 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the civil liability of certain businesses in connection with allowing concealed handguns on the business premises.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1126 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1126-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Bell of Montgomery, et al. | H.B. No. 1126 | |
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| relating to the civil liability of certain businesses in connection | ||
| with allowing concealed handguns on the business premises. | ||
| 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. LIABILITY OF BUSINESS IN CONNECTION WITH ALLOWING | ||
| CONCEALED HANDGUNS | ||
| Sec. 95A.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "license | ||
| holder" means a person licensed to carry a handgun under Subchapter | ||
| H, Chapter 411, Government Code. | ||
| Sec. 95A.002. IMMUNITY OF BUSINESS THAT ALLOWS CONCEALED | ||
| HANDGUNS. A person with control over the premises of a business who | ||
| allows entry on the premises by a license holder with a concealed | ||
| handgun is not liable based solely on that permission for damages | ||
| arising from the lawful carrying of a concealed handgun on the | ||
| premises. | ||
| Sec. 95A.003. ORAL OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION. For purposes | ||
| of this chapter, the lack of an oral or written communication that | ||
| constitutes notice for purposes of Section 30.06, Penal Code, is | ||
| sufficient to constitute allowing entry on the premises by a | ||
| license holder with a concealed handgun. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 95A.002, 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 that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
