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            |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
         
            |  | AN ACT | 
         
            |  | relating to a sales and use tax exemption for firearm safety | 
         
            |  | equipment. | 
         
            |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
            |  | SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 151, Tax Code, is amended | 
         
            |  | by adding Section 151.3131 to read as follows: | 
         
            |  | Sec. 151.3131.  FIREARM SAFETY EQUIPMENT.  (a)  In this | 
         
            |  | section, "firearm safety equipment" means a gun lock box, a gun | 
         
            |  | safe, a barrel lock, a trigger lock, or another item designed to | 
         
            |  | ensure the safe handling or storage of a firearm. | 
         
            |  | (b)  The sale, storage, use, or other consumption of firearm | 
         
            |  | safety equipment is exempted from the taxes imposed by this | 
         
            |  | chapter. | 
         
            |  | SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not | 
         
            |  | affect tax liability accruing before the effective date of this | 
         
            |  | Act.  That liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been | 
         
            |  | enacted, and the former law is continued in effect for the | 
         
            |  | collection of taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of | 
         
            |  | the liability for those taxes. | 
         
            |  | SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |