85R2327 JSC-F
	By: Anchia	H.B. No. 466

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to limiting the locations in which a license holder may
	openly carry a handgun; restricting an exception to a criminal
	offense.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 229, Local Government
	Code, is amended by adding Section 229.005 to read as follows:
	Sec. 229.005.  MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF OPENLY CARRYING
	HANDGUN. (a)  Subject to Subsection (b), the governing body of a
	municipality with a population of more than 750,000 may adopt an
	ordinance prohibiting a person who holds a license to carry a
	handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, from
	carrying a partially or wholly visible handgun within the corporate
	boundaries of the municipality.
	(b)  The governing body of a municipality may adopt an
	ordinance under Subsection (a) only if a majority of the
	municipality's voters voting at an election held for that purpose
	approve a proposition to authorize the governing body to adopt the
	ordinance.
	SECTION 2.  Section 46.035, Penal Code, is amended by adding
	Subsection (m) to read as follows:
	(m)  The exception provided by Subsection (a) is not
	available to a license holder who is carrying a partially or wholly
	visible handgun in a municipality with an ordinance that was
	adopted under Section 229.005, Local Government Code, and is in
	effect at the time of the offense.
	SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act in adding
	Section 46.035(m), Penal Code, 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 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 the effective date of this Act if
	any element of the offense occurred before that date.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.