Bill Text: TX HB22 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the report of certain sales of multiple firearms and multiple firearm magazines; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-19 - Left pending in committee [HB22 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB22-Introduced.html
| By: Moody | H.B. No. 22 | |
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| relating to requiring the report of certain sales of multiple | ||
| firearms and multiple firearm magazines; creating a criminal | ||
| offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 6, Business & Commerce Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 205 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 205. REPORTING OF CERTAIN SALES OF MULTIPLE FIREARMS AND | ||
| MULTIPLE FIREARM MAGAZINES | ||
| SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS | ||
| Sec. 205.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Department" means the Department of Public Safety | ||
| of the State of Texas. | ||
| (2) "Firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 46.01, Penal Code. | ||
| (3) "Multiple firearm sales report" means the form | ||
| described by Section 205.101, Business & Commerce Code. | ||
| (4) "Retailer" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 151.008, Tax Code. | ||
| SUBCHAPTER B. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS | ||
| Sec. 205.051. REPORTING OF CERTAIN SALES REQUIRED. (a) A | ||
| multiple firearm sales report is required when a retailer sells or | ||
| otherwise transfers to the same buyer or transferee within five | ||
| consecutive days: | ||
| (1) more than one firearm; or | ||
| (2) more than three detachable firearm magazines, | ||
| other than detachable firearm magazines originally packaged with a | ||
| firearm by the manufacturer that are sold or otherwise transferred | ||
| with the firearm. | ||
| (b) The multiple firearm sales report shall be transmitted | ||
| to the department before completing a sale or transfer described by | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) Within 24 hours after receiving a multiple firearm sales | ||
| report, the department shall transmit it to the sheriff of the | ||
| county in which the retailer operates and the sheriff of the county | ||
| in which the buyer or transferee resides. | ||
| Sec. 205.052. FAILURE TO REPORT; OFFENSE. (a) A person who | ||
| intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence | ||
| fails to transmit a multiple firearm sales report as required by | ||
| this subchapter commits an offense. | ||
| (b) An offense under this section is a class B misdemeanor. | ||
| SUBCHAPTER C. MULTIPLE FIREARM SALES REPORT FORM | ||
| Sec. 205.101. FORM. (a) Not later than September 1, 2023, | ||
| the department shall develop a form for making a multiple firearm | ||
| sales report. | ||
| (b) The form shall identify the dates and locations of the | ||
| sales or transfers, the firearms or detachable magazines sold or | ||
| transferred, and the identity of the retailer and the buyer or | ||
| transferee, including a copy of the identification provided by the | ||
| buyer or transferee. | ||
| (c) When the form required by this section is developed, the | ||
| department shall post it on the department's internet website. The | ||
| post shall include an email address or electronic portal for | ||
| submitting the form and instructions for doing so. | ||
| Sec. 205.102. CONFIDENTIALITY. Multiple firearm sales | ||
| reports are confidential. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
