Bill Text: TX HB639 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion by a licensed firearms dealer of a firearm safety device or secure firearm storage device and certain information with the transfer of a firearm.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB639 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB639-Introduced.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 639 | |
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| relating to the inclusion by a licensed firearms dealer of a firearm | ||
| safety device or secure firearm storage device and certain | ||
| information with the transfer of a firearm. | ||
| 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. TRANSFER OF FIREARMS BY LICENSED FIREARMS DEALER | ||
| Sec. 205.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 46.01, Penal Code. | ||
| (2) "Firearm safety device" means a cable lock, | ||
| trigger lock, or other safety lock or device that, when installed on | ||
| a firearm, prevents the firearm from discharging without first | ||
| being deactivated or removed from the device. | ||
| (3) "Firearm safety equipment" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 151.3131, Tax Code. | ||
| (4) "Licensed firearms dealer" means a person who is | ||
| licensed as a firearms dealer under 18 U.S.C. Section 923. | ||
| (5) "Secure firearm storage device" means a gun safe, | ||
| gun case, gun cabinet, or other device that is similarly designed to | ||
| be: | ||
| (A) used to store a firearm; and | ||
| (B) unlocked only by use of a key or combination | ||
| or by other similar means. | ||
| Sec. 205.002. INCLUSION OF FIREARM SAFETY DEVICE OR SECURE | ||
| FIREARM STORAGE DEVICE AND INFORMATION REGARDING TAX EXEMPTION. | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a licensed firearms | ||
| dealer shall, for each firearm sold or otherwise transferred by the | ||
| dealer: | ||
| (1) include: | ||
| (A) a firearm safety device compatible with the | ||
| firearm or a secure firearm storage device suitable for safely | ||
| storing the firearm; and | ||
| (B) a printed copy of the information form | ||
| developed by the Department of Public Safety under Section 205.003; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) verbally notify the purchaser or transferee that | ||
| firearm safety equipment is exempt from sales and use taxes under | ||
| Section 151.3131, Tax Code. | ||
| (b) Subsection (a)(1)(A) does not apply to the transfer of a | ||
| firearm to a peace officer licensed under Chapter 1701, Occupations | ||
| Code. | ||
| Sec. 205.003. FIREARM SAFETY INFORMATION. The Department | ||
| of Public Safety shall develop and make available on the | ||
| department's Internet website a printable information form that | ||
| includes information on: | ||
| (1) the safe storage of firearms, including the | ||
| effective use of a firearm safety device and secure firearm storage | ||
| device for each type of firearm; and | ||
| (2) the exemption from sales and use taxes on firearm | ||
| safety equipment under Section 151.3131, Tax Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2025, the Department | ||
| of Public Safety shall develop and make available the printable | ||
| form as required by Section 205.003, Business & Commerce Code, as | ||
| added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to the | ||
| sale or transfer of a firearm by a licensed firearms dealer, as | ||
| defined by Section 205.001, Business & Commerce Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, on or after January 1, 2026. The sale or transfer of a | ||
| firearm that occurs before January 1, 2026, is governed by the law | ||
| in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
