By: Hughes	S.B. No. 772
	(In the Senate - Filed February 12, 2019; March 1, 2019,
	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	April 8, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
	Nays 0; April 8, 2019, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to evidence in certain civil actions of a person's failure
	to forbid handguns on certain property.
	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 CERTAIN
	PROPERTY
	Sec. 95A.0001.  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 that subdivision.
	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.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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