Hall Bill Turns No-Gun Signs Into Evidence Against Businesses

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90R798 AMF-D

By: Hall, Hagenbuch
S.B. No. 193

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to evidence in certain civil actions that entry on a

property by a license holder with a concealed handgun was

forbidden.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Chapter 95A, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,

is amended by adding Section 95A.0002 to read as follows:

Sec. 95A.0002. EVIDENCE OF NOTICE TO FORBID CONCEALED

HANDGUNS. The fact that a card, sign, or other document described

by Section 30.06(c)(3), Penal Code, is posted on the property of a

business or any other evidence that a business owner exercised the

business owner's option to forbid the carrying of a concealed

handgun by a license holder on the property:

(1) is admissible as evidence in a trial on the merits

in an action:

(A) against the business owner; and

(B) in which the cause of action arises from

serious bodily injury or death arising from a criminal act

occurring on the property; and

(2) supports a cause of action described by

Subdivision (1) against a business owner described by that

subdivision.

SECTION 2. Section 95A.0002, Civil Practice and Remedies

Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an action filed on or

after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2027.