By Farrar                                             H.B. No. 1000
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of the offense of failing to report the
 1-3     loss or theft of a firearm.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 46, Penal Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Section 46.14 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 46.14.  FAILURE TO REPORT LOST OR STOLEN FIREARM.  (a)
 1-8     A person commits an offense if the person owns a firearm that is
 1-9     subsequently stolen from the person or lost by the person unless
1-10     the person, not later than the 10th day after the date on which the
1-11     person realizes that the firearm has been lost or stolen, reports
1-12     the loss or theft to the sheriff of the county in which the person
1-13     reasonably believes the firearm was lost or stolen.
1-14           (b)  An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.