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        |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
      
        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to a sales and use tax exemption for firearm safety devices | 
      
        |  | and educational materials. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 151, Tax Code, is amended | 
      
        |  | by adding Section 151.3131 to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 151.3131.  FIREARM SAFETY SUPPLIES.  (a)  In this | 
      
        |  | section, "firearm safety supplies" means gun cases, gun safes, | 
      
        |  | firearm safety locks, trigger locks, firearms safety training | 
      
        |  | manuals or electronic publications, and other items designed to | 
      
        |  | ensure the safe handling or storage of a firearm. | 
      
        |  | (b)  The sale, storage, use, or other consumption of firearm | 
      
        |  | safety supplies is exempted from the taxes imposed by this chapter. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not | 
      
        |  | affect tax liability accruing before the effective date of this | 
      
        |  | Act.  That liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been | 
      
        |  | enacted, and the former law is continued in effect for the | 
      
        |  | collection of taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of | 
      
        |  | the liability for those taxes. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |