89th Legislature, Regular Session
HB 579
Relating to prohibiting the transfer of semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; increasing a criminal penalty.
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89R4535 AJZ-D By: Reynolds H.B. No. 579 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to prohibiting the transfer of semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; increasing a criminal penalty. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Sections 46.06(a), (c), and (d), Penal Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) sells, rents, leases, loans, or gives a handgun to any person knowing that the person to whom the handgun is to be delivered intends to use it unlawfully or in the commission of an