Amend CSHB 2837 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  On page 1, between lines 14 and 15, insert the following:

"(3)  calls for maintaining firearms purchases by methods which may include merchant category codes have increased due to the dramatic increase in gun violence in Texas, for example:

(A)  three of the ten deadliest mass shootings in modern United States history have occurred in Texas in the past five years;

(B)  the following mass shootings have occurred in Texas:

(i)  26 people were killed in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017;

(ii)  23 people were killed in Killeen, Texas, in 1991;

(iii)  23 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, in 2019;

(iv)  21 people were killed in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022;

(v)  13 people were killed in Killeen, Texas, in 2009; and

(vi)  10 people were killed in Santa Fe, Texas, in 2018; and

(vii)  5 people were killed in Cleveland, Texas, in 2023.

(C)  firearm homicide rates for children under 18 have more than doubled in Texas between 2014 and 2020;

(D)  from 2015 to 2020, Texas lost 572 children to firearm homicides, more than any other state;

(E)  overall firearm homicide rates in Texas have increased 66 percent from 2014 to 2020;"

(2)  Renumber accordingly the subsequent subsections.