Bill Text: TX HB3266 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-12 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3266 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3266-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-12 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3266 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3266-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Frazier | H.B. No. 3266 |
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relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the | ||
possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain | ||
devices intended to modify handguns. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 46.05(a), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally | ||
or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or | ||
sells: | ||
(1) any of the following items, unless the item is | ||
registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer | ||
Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and | ||
Explosives or otherwise not subject to that registration | ||
requirement or unless the item is classified as a curio or relic by | ||
the United States Department of Justice: | ||
(A) an explosive weapon; | ||
(B) a machine gun; [ |
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(C) a short-barrel firearm; or | ||
(D) a device designed and intended to make a | ||
handgun capable of automatically shooting more than one shot, | ||
without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger; | ||
(2) armor-piercing ammunition; | ||
(3) a chemical dispensing device; | ||
(4) a zip gun; | ||
(5) a tire deflation device; or | ||
(6) an improvised explosive device. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |