Bill Text: TX SB1522 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a required waiting period for certain semiautomatic rifle sales; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1522 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1522-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 1522 | |
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| relating to a required waiting period for certain semiautomatic | ||
| rifle sales; creating a criminal offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 46.06(a) and (d), Penal Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person commits an offense if the person: | ||
| (1) sells, rents, leases, loans, or gives a handgun to | ||
| any person knowing that the person to whom the handgun is to be | ||
| delivered intends to use it unlawfully or in the commission of an | ||
| unlawful act; | ||
| (2) intentionally or knowingly sells, rents, leases, | ||
| or gives or offers to sell, rent, lease, or give to any child | ||
| younger than 18 years of age any firearm, club, or | ||
| location-restricted knife; | ||
| (3) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly sells a | ||
| firearm or ammunition for a firearm to any person who is | ||
| intoxicated; | ||
| (4) knowingly sells a firearm or ammunition for a | ||
| firearm to any person who has been convicted of a felony before the | ||
| fifth anniversary of the later of the following dates: | ||
| (A) the person's release from confinement | ||
| following conviction of the felony; or | ||
| (B) the person's release from supervision under | ||
| community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision following | ||
| conviction of the felony; | ||
| (5) sells, rents, leases, loans, or gives a handgun to | ||
| any person knowing that an active protective order is directed to | ||
| the person to whom the handgun is to be delivered; | ||
| (6) knowingly purchases, rents, leases, or receives as | ||
| a loan or gift from another a handgun while an active protective | ||
| order is directed to the actor; [ |
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| (7) while prohibited from possessing a firearm under | ||
| state or federal law, knowingly makes a material false statement on | ||
| a form that is: | ||
| (A) required by state or federal law for the | ||
| purchase, sale, or other transfer of a firearm; and | ||
| (B) submitted to a licensed firearms dealer, as | ||
| defined by 18 U.S.C. Section 923; or | ||
| (8) sells a semiautomatic rifle to a person younger | ||
| than 21 years of age and delivers the semiautomatic rifle to the | ||
| person to whom the semiautomatic rifle is being sold earlier than 72 | ||
| hours after the firearm was sold to the person. | ||
| (d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, | ||
| except that: | ||
| (1) an offense under Subsection (a)(2) is a state jail | ||
| felony if the weapon that is the subject of the offense is a | ||
| handgun; and | ||
| (2) an offense under Subsection (a)(7) or (8) is a | ||
| state jail felony. | ||
| 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. | ||
