By: Springer, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 1819
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
  May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
  Affairs; May 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain
  conduct with respect to a firearm silencer.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 46.05(a) and (e), Penal Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A person commits an offense if the person intentionally
  or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or
  sells:
               (1)  any of the following items, unless the item is
  registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer
  Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
  Explosives or classified as a curio or relic by the United States
  Department of Justice:
                     (A)  an explosive weapon;
                     (B)  a machine gun; or
                     (C)  a short-barrel firearm; [or
                     [(D)  a firearm silencer;]
               (2)  knuckles;
               (3)  armor-piercing ammunition;
               (4)  a chemical dispensing device;
               (5)  a zip gun; [or]
               (6)  a tire deflation device; or
               (7)  a firearm silencer, unless the firearm silencer is
  classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of
  Justice or the actor otherwise possesses, manufactures,
  transports, repairs, or sells the firearm silencer in compliance
  with federal law.
         (e)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (3), (4), [or] (5),
  or (7) is a felony of the third degree.  An offense under Subsection
  (a)(6) is a state jail felony.  An offense under Subsection (a)(2)
  is a Class A misdemeanor.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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