By: Hughes, Hall S.B. No. 1736
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be
  carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person.
         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
  PROPERTY
         Sec. 95A.001.  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 Subdivision (1).
         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.  A cause of action
  that accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by
  the law applicable to the cause of action immediately before that
  date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.