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.