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  By: Rinaldi H.B. No. 497
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the liability of a business that allows handguns to be
  carried on the business's premises.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is
  amended by adding Chapter 95A to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 95A. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS THAT ALLOWS HANDGUNS
         Sec. 95A.001.  LIMITED LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS THAT ALLOWS
  HANDGUNS. The owner or operator of a business on the premises of
  which the carrying of a handgun is not otherwise unlawful is immune
  from civil liability with respect to any claim that is based on the
  owner's or operator's failure to exercise the option to forbid the
  carrying of handguns on the premises by customers or employees.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 95A, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
  as added by this Act, does not apply to a cause of action that
  accrued before the effective date of this Act. A cause of action
  that accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by
  the law applicable to the cause of action immediately before that
  date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.