By: Hughes	S.B. No. 1736
	(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2017; March 23, 2017, read
	first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	April 18, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 2; April 18, 2017,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1736	By:  Hughes

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be
	carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person.
	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.  LIMITED LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN PERSONS WHO ALLOW
	HANDGUNS
	Sec. 95A.001.  DEFINITION. In this chapter, "license
	holder" means a person licensed to carry a handgun under Subchapter
	H, Chapter 411, Government Code.
	Sec. 95A.002.  LIMITED LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN PERSONS WHO
	ALLOW HANDGUNS. A person, including a business or other entity, who
	owns, controls, or manages property and who has authority to forbid
	the carrying of handguns on the property is immune from civil
	liability with respect to any claim that is based on the person's
	failure to exercise the option to forbid the carrying of handguns by
	a license holder on the property by providing notice under Sections
	30.06 and 30.07, Penal Code.
	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.  A cause of action
	that accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by
	the law applicable to the cause of action immediately before that
	date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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