Bill Text: TX SB473 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to defenses and exceptions to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain prohibited explosive weapons, firearms, and related items.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-22 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB473 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB473-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to defenses and exceptions to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain prohibited explosive weapons, firearms, and related items.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-22 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB473 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB473-Introduced.html
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By: Perry | S.B. No. 473 |
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relating to defenses and exceptions to the prosecution of the | ||
criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, | ||
repair, or sale of certain prohibited explosive weapons, firearms, | ||
and related items. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 46.05(a) and (e), Penal Code, are | ||
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 Firearm Registration and Transfer Record | ||
maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and | ||
Explosives or classified as a curio or relic by the United States | ||
Department of Justice: | ||
(A) an explosive weapon; | ||
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(e) An offense under Subsection (a)(1), [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 46.05(c), Penal Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |