1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 819 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2001; February 22, 2001, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 April 18, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, 1-5 Nays 1; April 18, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to regulation of the carrying of a handgun. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 30.06, Penal Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 (a) A license holder commits an offense if the license 1-13 holder: 1-14 (1) carries a handgun under the authority of 1-15 Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, on property, other than 1-16 government property, of another without effective consent; and 1-17 (2) received notice that: 1-18 (A) entry on the property by a license holder 1-19 with a concealed handgun was forbidden; or 1-20 (B) remaining on the property with a concealed 1-21 handgun was forbidden and failed to depart. 1-22 SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-23 amended by adding Section 411.209 to read as follows: 1-24 Sec. 411.209. EXCLUSIVE REGULATORY AUTHORITY. Except as 1-25 otherwise provided by federal law, the legislature has the 1-26 exclusive authority to regulate the carrying of a handgun. 1-27 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-28 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-29 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 1-30 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-31 before the effective date. 1-32 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-33 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-34 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-35 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-36 * * * * *