86R23251 JSC-F
By: Schaefer, Oliverson, Lang, Shaheen, H.B. No. 3016
Middleton, et al.
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3016:
By: Burns C.S.H.B. No. 3016
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the carrying of a handgun by a license holder in a motor
vehicle.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 46.035(a), Penal Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A license holder commits an offense if the license
holder carries a handgun on or about the license holder's person
under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code,
and intentionally displays the handgun in plain view of another
person in a public place. It is an exception to the application of
this subsection that the handgun was partially or wholly visible
but was:
(1) carried in a shoulder or belt holster by the
license holder; or
(2) in a holster, and the handgun and the license
holder were in a motor vehicle.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after January 1, 2020. An offense
committed before January 1, 2020, is governed 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 January 1, 2020, if any element of
the offense occurred before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.