By Walker H.B. No. 2929
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 46.13(c) of the Texas Penal Code is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) It is a[n affirmative] defense to prosecution under this
1-7 section that the child's access to the firearm:
1-8 (1) was supervised by a person older than [18] 16
1-9 years of age, [and was for hunting, sporting, or other lawful
1-10 purposes;]
1-11 SECTION 2. A new subsection (h) is added to Section 46.13 to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (h) It is an exception to the application of this section if
1-14 the firearm was the property of the child and which the child
1-15 acquired with the consent of a parent or guardian for the child's
1-16 general use for hunting, sporting, and other lawful purposes.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.