By: Hughes, Hall S.B. No. 772
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to evidence in certain civil actions of a person's failure
  to forbid handguns on certain property.
         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. ACTIONS INVOLVING THE CARRYING OF HANDGUNS ON CERTAIN
  PROPERTY
         Sec. 95A.0001.  EVIDENCE OF FAILURE TO FORBID HANDGUNS. The
  fact that a card, sign, or other document described by Section
  30.06(c)(3) or 30.07(c)(3), Penal Code, is not posted on the
  property of a business or any other evidence that a person failed to
  exercise the person's option to forbid the carrying of a handgun by
  a license holder on the property:
               (1)  is not admissible as evidence in a trial on the
  merits in an action:
                     (A)  against a person, including a business or
  other entity, who owns, controls, or manages the property; and
                     (B)  in which the cause of action arises from an
  injury sustained on the property; and
               (2)  does not support a cause of action described by
  Subdivision (1) against a person described by that subdivision.
         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.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.