TITLE: Relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person.

SUMMARY: Relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person.

FULL TEXT:
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. ACTIONS INVOLVING THE CARRYING OF HANDGUNS ON PROPERTY Sec. 95A.001. EVIDENCE OF FAILURE TO FORBID HANDGUNS. The fact that a card, sign, or other document described by Section 30.06(c)(3) or 30.07(c)(3), Penal Code, is not posted on the property of a business or any other evidence that a person failed to exercise the person's option to forbid the carrying of a handgun by a license holder on the property: (1) is not admissible as evidence in a trial on the merits in an action: (A) against a person, including a business or other entity, who owns, controls, or manages the property; and (B) in which the cause of action arises from an injury sustained on the property; and (2) does not support a cause of action described by Subdivision (1) against a person described by Subdivision (1). 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.