By Brown S.B. No. 839
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to places where weapons are prohibited; creating an
1-3 offense.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 46.03(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if, with a firearm, illegal
1-8 knife, club, or prohibited weapon listed in Section 46.05(a), he
1-9 intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly goes:
1-10 (1) on the physical premises of a public or private
1-11 school or<, an> educational institution, or in a passenger
1-12 transportation vehicle of the <a> school or <an educational>
1-13 institution, <whether the school or educational institution is
1-14 public or private,> unless pursuant to written regulations or
1-15 written authorization of the school or institution or on a premises
1-16 where:
1-17 (A) an official school function is taking place;
1-18 (B) an event sponsored or sanctioned by the
1-19 university interscholastic league is taking place; or
1-20 (C) a school-sponsored extracurricular activity
1-21 in which the actor is a participant is taking place;
1-22 (2) on the premises of a polling place on the day of
1-23 an election or while early voting is in progress;
1-24 (3) in any government court or offices utilized by the
2-1 court, unless pursuant to written regulations or written
2-2 authorization of the court;
2-3 (4) on the premises of a racetrack; or
2-4 (5) into a secured area of an airport.
2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.