By Brown                                               S.B. No. 839
       74R5000 PEP-D
                                 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.