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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
SB872Relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a vehicle involving theft of a firearm; increasing a criminal penalty.
Direction
FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Makes burglary of a vehicle with theft of a firearm a third-degree felony (increased from lower penalties), so more severe punishment for crimes involving theft of firearms.
the offense is a felony of the third degree if: ... (C) the actor committed theft of a firearm during the commission of the offense.
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Filed (completed)
Committee (completed)
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-05-26: Placed on General State Calendar
Filed
2025-01-22
Sponsor
Brian Birdwell R, David Cook R + 2 cosponsors (2 D)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill increases the criminal penalty specifically when burglary of a vehicle involves theft of a firearm, which is a general violent-crime penalty that mentions a firearm but does not change laws on buying, selling, owning, carrying, or accessing firearms themselves; per the topic definition this falls under firearms/other with a restricts direction due to heightened punishment. The definitional change for 'enter' is technical/neutral and unrelated to the firearms axis.
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