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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be |
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carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is |
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amended by adding Chapter 95A to read as follows: |
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CHAPTER 95A. ACTIONS INVOLVING THE CARRYING OF HANDGUNS ON |
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PROPERTY |
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Sec. 95A.001. EVIDENCE OF FAILURE TO FORBID HANDGUNS. The |
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fact that a card, sign, or other document described by Section |
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30.06(c)(3) or 30.07(c)(3), Penal Code, is not posted on the |
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property of a business or any other evidence that a person failed to |
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exercise the person's option to forbid the carrying of a handgun by |
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a license holder on the property: |
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(1) is not admissible as evidence in a trial on the |
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merits in an action: |
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(A) against a person, including a business or |
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other entity, who owns, controls, or manages the property; and |
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(B) in which the cause of action arises from an |
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injury sustained on the property; and |
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(2) does not support a cause of action described by |
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Subdivision (1) against a person described by Subdivision (1). |
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SECTION 2. Chapter 95A, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, |
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as added by this Act, does not apply to a cause of action that |
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accrued before the effective date of this Act. A cause of action |
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that accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by |
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the law applicable to the cause of action immediately before that |
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date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |