Bill Text: TX HB497 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the liability of a business that allows handguns to be carried on the business's premises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 18-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-28 - Left pending in committee [HB497 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB497-Introduced.html

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85R1101 LED-D
By: Rinaldi H.B. No. 497

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the liability of a business that allows handguns to be
carried on the business's 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. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS THAT ALLOWS HANDGUNS
Sec. 95A.001. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS THAT ALLOWS
HANDGUNS. The owner or operator of a business on the premises of
which the carrying of a handgun is not otherwise unlawful is immune
from civil liability with respect to any claim that is based on the
owner's or operator's failure to exercise the option to forbid the
carrying of handguns on the premises by customers or employees.
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.