By: Hughes  S.B. No. 741
         (In the Senate - Filed February 11, 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 restrictive covenants regarding firearms or firearm
  ammunition.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 202, Property Code, is amended by adding
  Section 202.020 to read as follows:
         Sec. 202.020.  REGULATION OF FIREARMS OR FIREARM AMMUNITION.  
  A property owners' association may not include or enforce a
  provision in a dedicatory instrument that prohibits, restricts, or
  has the effect of prohibiting or restricting any person who is
  otherwise authorized from lawfully possessing, transporting, or
  storing a firearm, any part of a firearm, or firearm ammunition, as
  well as the otherwise lawful discharge of a firearm.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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