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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be  | 
      
      
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        carried on property owned, leased, or managed by the person. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is  | 
      
      
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        amended by adding Chapter 95A to read as follows: | 
      
      
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        CHAPTER 95A. LIMITED LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN PERSONS WHO ALLOW  | 
      
      
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        HANDGUNS | 
      
      
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               Sec. 95A.001.  DEFINITION.  In this chapter, "license  | 
      
      
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        holder" means a person licensed to carry a handgun under Subchapter  | 
      
      
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        H, Chapter 411, Government Code, or a person with a license to carry  | 
      
      
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        a handgun issued by another state and recognized in this state. | 
      
      
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               Sec. 95A.002.  LIMITED LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN PERSONS WHO  | 
      
      
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        ALLOW HANDGUNS.  There is no cause of action against an owner,  | 
      
      
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        lessee, or manager of property based on the owner's, lessee's, or  | 
      
      
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        manager's decision not to exercise the option to forbid the  | 
      
      
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        carrying of handguns by a license holder on the property by  | 
      
      
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        providing notice under Sections 30.06 and 30.07, Penal Code. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Chapter 95A, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,  | 
      
      
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        as added by this Act, does not apply to a cause of action that  | 
      
      
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        accrued before the effective date of this Act. A cause of action  | 
      
      
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        that accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by  | 
      
      
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        the law applicable to the cause of action immediately before that  | 
      
      
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        date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |