Honorable Ryan Guillen, Chair, House Committee on Community Safety, Select
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB3266 by Frazier (Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.), As Introduced
The bill would expand the conduct constituting the third degree felony offense of knowingly possessing, manufacturing, transporting, repairing, or selling a prohibited weapon to include such conduct related to a device designed and intended to make a handgun capable of automatically shooting more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
Expanding the conduct constituting an existing offense may result in additional demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.
In fiscal year 2022, there were 526 individuals arrested, 91 individuals placed on adult community supervision, 16 individuals placed on juvenile probation supervision, 40 individuals admitted to an adult state correctional institution, and no individuals admitted to a juvenile state correctional institution for the third degree felony offense of intentionally or knowingly possessing, manufacturing, transporting, repairing, or selling a prohibited weapon.
It is assumed that any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.