By: Moody	H.B. No. 3545

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  The heading to Subchapter B, Chapter 128, Civil
	Practice and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER B. CIVIL ACTIONS AGAINST SPORT SHOOTING RANGES
	SECTION 2.  Chapter 128, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
	is amended by adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER C. LIABILITY ARISING FROM FIREARM HOLD AGREEMENTS
	Sec. 128.101.  DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
	(1)  "Federal firearms licensee" means any person
	licensed under 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44.
	(2)  "Firearm" means any device designed, made, or
	adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy
	generated by an explosion or burning substance or any device
	readily convertible to that use.
	(3)  "Firearm hold agreement" means a private
	transaction between a federal firearms licensee and an individual
	firearm owner in which the licensee takes physical possession of
	the owner's lawfully possessed firearm at the owner's request,
	holds the firearm for an agreed period of time, and returns the
	firearm to the owner according to the terms of the agreement.
	Sec. 128.102.  IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY. (a) A person does
	not have a cause of action against a federal firearms licensee
	operating lawfully in this state for any act or omission arising
	from a firearm hold agreement that results in personal injury or
	death, including the return of a firearm to the owner by the
	licensee at the termination of the agreement.
	(b)  The immunity from civil liability provided by
	Subsection (a) does not apply to a cause of action arising from the
	unlawful conduct or gross negligence of the licensee.
	SECTION 3.  Subchapter C, Chapter 128, 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.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.