Monitoring the SessionSB 1668
Died in committee
Initial review · graded Oct 20, 2026 · Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person · How we grade
relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
Unless federally registered or exempt.
The bill adds devices built only to make a handgun fire automatically, often called switches, to the Texas list of banned weapons. It touches anyone who knowingly has, makes, moves, repairs, or sells such a device, unless the item is federally registered or exempt from federal registration. Starting September 1, 2025, possessing one of these devices by itself becomes an offense under the state's prohibited weapons law.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R HB 3266 by Rep. Frazier (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.DO-OVER. Reworked text of a bill filed before that died: 88R HB 3266 by Rep. Frazier (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Feb 27, 2025 and referred to the Senate State Affairs committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-SB1668 · 2025-02-27
+ 2 coauthors
relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.
Unless federally registered or exempt.
The bill adds devices built only to make a handgun fire automatically, often called switches, to the Texas list of banned weapons. It touches anyone who knowingly has, makes, moves, repairs, or sells such a device, unless the item is federally registered or exempt from federal registration. Starting September 1, 2025, possessing one of these devices by itself becomes an offense under the state's prohibited weapons law.
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Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 2 times: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.
by Rep. Frazier, different lead author · Died in committee · reworked
Introduced textLast action, May 12, 2023: Referred to State Affairs
Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.
Caption, 88R bill history
Texas Senate · Filed Feb 27, 2025
03/11/2025 S Referred to State Affairs
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
Senate committee · State Affairs · Final status: Died in committee
HB 2356 by Plesa (very similar)
HB 2393 by Martinez Fischer (very similar)
Crimes--Miscellaneous
Weapons
The text as introduced · 298 words
89R15076 MZM-F By: Huffman S.B. No. 1668 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 46.05(a), Penal Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or sells: (1) any of the following items, unless the item is registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or otherwise not subject to that registration requirement or unless the item is classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of Justice: (A) an explosive weapon; (B) a machine gun; [ or ] (C) a short-barrel firearm; or (D) a device designed and intended solely and exclusively to make a handgun capable of shooting automatically more than two shots, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger; (2) armor-piercing ammunition; (3) a chemical dispensing device; (4) a zip gun; (5) a tire deflation device; or (6) an improvised explosive device. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
