BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 14 By: Murr Public Health Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties assert that state hospitals should have the same authority as other types of hospitals to prohibit a handgun license holder from carrying a handgun on hospital property. H.B. 14 seeks to provide this authority. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 14 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize a state hospital to prohibit a handgun license holder from carrying a handgun on the property of the hospital by providing written notice that such a license holder may not enter the property with a handgun. The bill specifies the facilities considered a state hospital for purposes of that authorization and sets out requirements relating to the notice. The bill makes a handgun license holder who carries a handgun on the property of a state hospital at which written notice is provided liable for a civil penalty of $100 for the first violation and $500 for the second or subsequent violation and authorizes the attorney general or an appropriate prosecuting attorney to sue to collect such a penalty. H.B. 14 amends the Government Code to make statutory provisions relating to wrongful exclusion of a handgun license holder inapplicable to a written notice provided by a state hospital under the bill's provisions. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2017.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 14
By: Murr
Public Health
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 14
By: Murr
Public Health
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties assert that state hospitals should have the same authority as other types of hospitals to prohibit a handgun license holder from carrying a handgun on hospital property. H.B. 14 seeks to provide this authority.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 14 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize a state hospital to prohibit a handgun license holder from carrying a handgun on the property of the hospital by providing written notice that such a license holder may not enter the property with a handgun. The bill specifies the facilities considered a state hospital for purposes of that authorization and sets out requirements relating to the notice. The bill makes a handgun license holder who carries a handgun on the property of a state hospital at which written notice is provided liable for a civil penalty of $100 for the first violation and $500 for the second or subsequent violation and authorizes the attorney general or an appropriate prosecuting attorney to sue to collect such a penalty. H.B. 14 amends the Government Code to make statutory provisions relating to wrongful exclusion of a handgun license holder inapplicable to a written notice provided by a state hospital under the bill's provisions.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2017.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties assert that state hospitals should have the same authority as other types of hospitals to prohibit a handgun license holder from carrying a handgun on hospital property. H.B. 14 seeks to provide this authority.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 14 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize a state hospital to prohibit a handgun license holder from carrying a handgun on the property of the hospital by providing written notice that such a license holder may not enter the property with a handgun. The bill specifies the facilities considered a state hospital for purposes of that authorization and sets out requirements relating to the notice. The bill makes a handgun license holder who carries a handgun on the property of a state hospital at which written notice is provided liable for a civil penalty of $100 for the first violation and $500 for the second or subsequent violation and authorizes the attorney general or an appropriate prosecuting attorney to sue to collect such a penalty.
H.B. 14 amends the Government Code to make statutory provisions relating to wrongful exclusion of a handgun license holder inapplicable to a written notice provided by a state hospital under the bill's provisions.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2017.