Bill Text: TX SB772 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to evidence in certain civil actions of a person's failure to forbid handguns on certain property.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB772 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB772-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 772 | ||
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 772 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 772 passed the House on | ||
| May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 88, Nays 51, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
