83R9918 SLB-D
By: Guillen H.B. No. 1993
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the discharge of a firearm across the property line of
an educational facility and educating hunters on that subject;
providing criminal penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 62, Parks and Wildlife
Code, is amended by adding Section 62.0122 to read as follows:
Sec. 62.0122. DISCHARGE OF FIREARM ACROSS PROPERTY LINE OF
EDUCATIONAL FACILITY. (a) In this section:
(1) "Educational facility" means a public or private:
(A) prekindergarten facility;
(B) elementary or secondary school; or
(C) junior college, college, or university.
(2) "Firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section
62.014(a).
(b) A person commits an offense if:
(1) the person, while hunting or engaging in
recreational shooting, knowingly discharges a firearm; and
(2) the projectile from the firearm travels across the
property line of an educational facility.
(c) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
constitutes an offense under a section of the Penal Code, the person
may be prosecuted under either section or both sections.
SECTION 2. Section 62.013, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsections (b), [and] (c), and
(d) [of this section], a person who violates a provision of this
subchapter commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife
Code misdemeanor.
(d) A person who violates Section 62.0122 commits an offense
that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor, except that
the offense is a Class A Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor if it
is shown on the trial of the offense that the violation occurred
while students were present at the educational facility.
SECTION 3. Section 62.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) A hunter education course must include information
describing the penalty for the discharge of a firearm across the
property line of an educational facility as provided by Section
62.0122.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
covered by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
before that date.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.