Firearms in Texas

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• TXHB1105 2027-2028By Diego Bernal (D)
  Relating to requiring a licensed firearms dealer to report certain sales or transfers of multiple rifles to law enforcement; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires licensed dealers to report multiple rifle sales or transfers (two or more to the same buyer within five business days) to state and local law enforcement, so more dealer reporting and monitoring of rifle acquisitions.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 12: Filed
• TXSB327 2027-2028By Roland Gutierrez (D) +1
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients younger than 21 years of age; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to persons under 21 (with exceptions), so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 10: Filed
• TXHB1039 2027-2028By Matthew Shaheen (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the classification of certain sales of firearms as occasional sales for purposes of sales and use taxes.

  AI summary Raises the annual sales limit for occasional (non-permit) sales of firearms from $3,000 to $6,000 while keeping the same limit for other property, so more private firearm sales become tax-exempt.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 10: Filed
• TXSB80 2027-2028By Judith Zaffirini (D)
  Relating to prohibiting certain transfers, purchases, and possession of assault weapons; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Defines and bans purchase and possession of many semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, pistols and conversion kits meeting listed criteria, so less ability to buy or own those firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXSB308 2027-2028By Roland Gutierrez (D) +2
  Relating to prohibiting the manufacture of firearms and major components of firearms with a three-dimensional printer, the possession, transport, repair, or sale of those firearms and components, and the distribution or publication of the schematics for those firearms and components; creating crimin

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, possession, transport, repair, sale of 3D-printed firearms and major components, and distribution of their digital schematics, so less ability to make or acquire such firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXSB234 2027-2028By Carol Alvarado (D) +4
  Relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a person following the person's conviction of certain family violence misdemeanors.

  AI summary Extends the period during which a person convicted of a family-violence Class A misdemeanor is barred from possessing a firearm from the prior law's duration to five years after release from confinement or supervision.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXSB193 2027-2028By Bob Hall (R) +1
  Relating to evidence in certain civil actions that entry on a property by a license holder with a concealed handgun was forbidden.

  AI summary Makes evidence of a business's posted notice forbidding concealed handguns admissible in civil suits against the business for injuries from crimes on the property, and states that it supports a cause of action against the business, so businesses face greater legal risk for posting such notices and a

  ↑Expands gun access ✓ Reviewedcarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXSB170 2027-2028By Brent Hagenbuch (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a vehicle involving theft of a firearm; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Makes burglary of a vehicle a third-degree felony (higher penalty) if a firearm is stolen during the offense, so increases punishment for theft of firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB977 2027-2028By Wesley Virdell (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files for certain defendants placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for the unlawful carrying of a handgun.

  AI summary Allows expunction of arrest records for defendants who received deferred adjudication for unlawful carrying of a handgun (under pre-2021 law), reducing long-term consequences of such arrests.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB960 2027-2028By Samantha Lopez-Resendez (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the carrying of certain weapons on the premises of a public library; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits carrying handguns (even if licensed and holstered) on public library premises, so less ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB896 2027-2028By Terry Canales (D)
  Relating to adding a designation on a person's driver's license or commercial driver's license indicating that the person is licensed to carry a handgun and the expiration of those licenses.

  AI summary Allows handgun license holders to elect a designation on their driver's or commercial driver's license showing they are licensed to carry, and requires displaying that combined license when carrying, making it easier to comply with carry identification rules.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB859 2027-2028By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of discharging a firearm in certain municipalities.

  AI summary Increases the penalty for discharging a firearm in certain municipalities from a Class A misdemeanor to a state jail felony, so more punishment for that firearm-related offense.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB857 2027-2028By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients younger than 21 years of age; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to persons under 21 (with exceptions), so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB806 2027-2028By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of semiautomatic rifles to anyone under 21, so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB776 2027-2028By Pooja Sethi (D)
  Relating to certain offenses and conduct subject to expulsion that are associated with possessing, carrying, exhibiting, or using a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of school property.

  AI summary Expands the distance around schools where unlicensed carry of a firearm is prohibited from 300 feet to 1,000 feet, while adding a defense to prosecution for lawful possession on private residence property or in a vehicle in transit or stopped for legitimate purposes without entering school grounds.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB773 2027-2028By AJ Louderback (R)
  Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment and changing the eligibility for community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses in which a firearm is used or exhibited and to certain consequences on conviction of certain offenses.

  AI summary Increases the minimum prison term to five years, bars deferred adjudication community supervision, and alters parole and sentencing rules for certain felonies when a firearm is used or exhibited, so more severe criminal penalties when firearms are involved in listed offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB771 2027-2028By Pooja Sethi (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, so fewer young adults can legally acquire them.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB712 2027-2028By Erin Gamez (D)
  Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate or prohibit the carrying of a firearm on the premises of certain libraries.

  AI summary Allows municipalities and counties to regulate or prohibit firearms in municipal or county libraries except for certain authorized persons, so more local restrictions on carrying firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary, carry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB672 2027-2028By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.

  AI summary Grants immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees and certain veterans organizations for acts or omissions under firearm hold agreements (temporary storage at owner's request), except for unlawful conduct or gross negligence, so less liability for firearm-related businesses and orgs

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  =No change to gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB660 2027-2028By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to requiring certain persons prohibited by law from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm to dispose of firearms owned, possessed, or controlled by the person.

  AI summary Requires persons prohibited from possessing firearms (due to certain convictions, protective orders, or bond conditions) to dispose of any firearms they own, possess, or control within 10 days and submit an affidavit confirming disposal, so more enforcement of existing firearm prohibitions.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB659 2027-2028By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to requiring a licensed firearms dealer to report certain sales or transfers of multiple firearms or firearm magazines to law enforcement; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires licensed dealers to report multiple sales of two or more firearms or four or more magazines to the Department of Public Safety and local sheriffs within 24 hours, with criminal penalties for noncompliance, so more dealer reporting and law-enforcement awareness of bulk purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB658 2027-2028By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Expands the age of a 'child' to under 18 (from under 17), narrows affirmative defenses for allowing child access to a firearm, and increases the penalty to a third-degree felony if the child causes death or serious injury to a non-resident, so more restrictions and higher penalties for making a gun,

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB618 2027-2028By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to the transfer of firearm magazines to recipients who are prohibited from possessing the type of firearm for which the magazine is designed or made; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Creates a new offense for a prohibited person to knowingly purchase or receive a firearm magazine as a loan or gift, so more restrictions on firearm accessories for prohibited persons.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB613 2027-2028By Suleman Lalani (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires NICS background checks through a licensed dealer for all private firearm transfers, so more restrictions on private sales.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB612 2027-2028By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to prohibiting a sex offender from possessing a firearm.

  AI summary Prohibits registered sex offenders from possessing firearms, so less ability for that group to own or carry firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB610 2027-2028By Suleman Lalani (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of firearms to certain recipients who are younger than 21 years of age.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of any firearm to anyone under 21 (with exceptions for those 18+ only for non-handguns via affirmative defense), so less ability for under-21s to buy or receive firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB609 2027-2028By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.

  AI summary Increases the penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child from a Class C to a Class A misdemeanor (and repeals the exception that made it a state jail felony in some cases), so more punishment for unsafe firearm storage around children.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB606 2027-2028By Suleman Lalani (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of firearms to or the purchase or possession of firearms by persons younger than 21 years of age; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for lawful purchase and possession of any firearm from 18 to 21 (with exceptions removed for under-18 transfers of non-handguns), so fewer people under 21 can legally buy or possess firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB576 2027-2028By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to prohibiting sex offenders from purchasing firearms.

  AI summary Adds a prohibition on firearm purchases by people required to register as sex offenders, so less ability for that group to buy firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB567 2027-2028By Carl Tepper (R)
  Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.

  AI summary Expands the ability of community supervision officers, juvenile probation officers, and qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry weapons in establishments serving the public, including when not on duty, by removing prior restrictions in the Penal Code and related statutes.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB533 2027-2028By Carl Tepper (R)
  Relating to the carrying of concealed handguns by handgun license holders on the premises of certain polling places on the day of an election or while early voting is in progress.

  AI summary Allows licensed handgun holders to carry concealed handguns at polling places on election days or during early voting (unless otherwise prohibited by law), so greater ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB422 2027-2028By Jeff Leach (R)
  Relating to an expiration date extension for a license to carry a handgun following renewal materials submission.

  AI summary Extends the validity of a license to carry a handgun by up to 90 days after submission of renewal materials, allowing continued legal carry during processing.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB377 2027-2028By Janis Holt (R)
  Relating to an expiration date extension for a license to carry a handgun following renewal materials submission.

  AI summary Extends the expiration date of a handgun carry license by up to 90 days if renewal materials are submitted on time, and treats the holder as having an unexpired license during that period when carrying the receipt and expired license, so greater ability to legally carry a handgun.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB367 2027-2028By Carrie Isaac (R)
  Relating to the liability of sport shooting range sponsors and sport shooting range professionals for injuries arising from certain activities.

  AI summary Expands protections from civil liability for sport shooting range sponsors and professionals for injuries from inherent risks or participant negligence, so more ability to operate ranges without lawsuit risk.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB283 2027-2028By Carrie Isaac (R)
  Relating to the applicability to election judges of a prohibition on the carrying of a concealed handgun at a polling place.

  AI summary Exempts licensed election judges and early voting clerks from the prohibition on carrying a concealed handgun at a polling place, so more ability to carry firearms in that location.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB272 2027-2028By Richard Raymond (D)
  Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain federal judges.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'federal judge' eligible for a special license to carry a handgun by adding immigration court judges, so more federal judges can carry with fewer standard restrictions.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB218 2027-2028By Ann Johnson (D)
  Relating to extreme risk protective orders, including the creation, issuance, and enforcement of those orders; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Creates a process for family, household members, or peace officers to petition for court-issued extreme risk protective orders that prohibit a respondent from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms based on evidence of serious mental illness and danger, requires relinquishment ofany

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB173 2027-2028By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to persons under 21 (with exceptions), so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB119 2027-2028By Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (D)
  Relating to designating August as Firearm Safety Awareness Month.

  AI summary Designates August as Firearm Safety Awareness Month and encourages discussion of safe firearm ownership, storage, and use along with voluntary programs to improve public safety regarding firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother, storage minors
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB103 2027-2028By Armando Martinez (D)
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of reckless discharge of a firearm in certain municipalities and counties.

  AI summary Expands the geographic scope of the state criminal offense for reckless discharge of a firearm by applying it to all counties with population of 500,000 or more (previously limited to the three largest counties) and to municipalities of 100,000 or more (previously 150,000 or more), so more places in

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  =No change to gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB320 2025By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of semiautomatic rifles to anyone under 21, so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Sep 3, 2025: Filed
• TXHB268 2025By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to the creation of certain criminal offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows.

  AI summary Requires background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows (including private sales) and requires gun show promoters to ensure or conduct such checks, so more background checks before gun transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 20, 2025: Filed
• TXHB207 2025By Richard Raymond (D)
  Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain federal judges.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'federal judge' eligible for a license to carry a handgun by adding immigration court judges, so more federal judges can carry handguns in Texas.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 18, 2025: Filed
• TXHB202 2025By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unlawful transfer of a semiautomatic rifle.

  AI summary Creates a new state jail felony for knowingly selling, renting, leasing, transferring or offering to transfer any semiautomatic rifle, so fewer people can legally acquire one.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 24, 2025: Filed
• TXHB201 2025By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to the creation of certain criminal offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows.

  AI summary Requires background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows (including private sales) and requires gun show promoters to ensure or conduct such checks, so more background checks before gun transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 24, 2025: Filed
• TXHB161 2025By Richard Raymond (D)
  Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain federal judges.

  AI summary Expands eligibility for concealed handgun licenses to include judges of a United States immigration court, so more federal judges can legally carry handguns in Texas.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 21, 2025: Filed
• TXSB1362 2025-2026By Bryan Hughes (R) +3 · 48 cosponsors
  Relating to prohibiting the recognition, service, and enforcement of extreme risk protective orders; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits state and local entities from recognizing, serving, or enforcing extreme risk protective orders (red flag orders), and makes it a state jail felony to do so unless issued under Texas law, so greater ability to own and possess firearms without risk of removal via such orders.

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo, preemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Law Jun 22, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXSB890 2025-2026By Angela Paxton (R) +1 · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain active and retired judicial officers.

  AI summary Expands eligibility for concealed handgun licenses to additional categories of active and retired judicial officers, including certain associate judges and federal judges, so more people can legally carry handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXSB706 2025-2026By Charles Schwertner (R) +4 · 20 cosponsors
  Relating to the recognition of a handgun license issued by another state.

  AI summary Removes the requirement for the governor to negotiate agreements or issue proclamations based on background checks before recognizing out-of-state handgun licenses, and repeals related subsections, so more out-of-state licenses will be recognized without those conditions.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXSB1718 2025-2026By Kevin Sparks (R) +4 · 3 cosponsors
  Relating to the eligibility of the National Rifle Association's Annual Meetings and Exhibits or another annual event of the National Rifle Association for funding under the major events reimbursement program.

  AI summary Adds the National Rifle Association's Annual Meetings and Exhibits to the list of events eligible for state funding under the major events reimbursement program, providing financial support for a major gun-related gathering.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXSB1596 2025-2026By Brent Hagenbuch (R) +5 · 33 cosponsors
  Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

  AI summary Removes short-barrel firearms from the list of prohibited weapons in Penal Code 46.05(a), so possession, manufacture, transport, repair or sale of them is no longer a state offense (unless other federal rules apply).

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXHB668 2025-2026By Cecil Bell (R) +5 · 3 cosponsors
  Relating to the renewal of a license to carry a handgun.

  AI summary Extends the deadline to renew a handgun carry license from before expiration to up to one year after expiration, so more people can continue carrying without interruption.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• TXHB4995 2025-2026By Terry Wilson (R) +1
  Relating to the carrying of handguns by tactical medical professionals while on duty providing support to tactical units of law enforcement agencies.

  AI summary Allows tactical medical professionals to carry handguns while on duty providing support to law enforcement tactical units without violating certain Penal Code prohibitions on unlawful carry, so more ability to carry firearms in those circumstances.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, other
  =No change to gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXHB3053 2025-2026By Wesley Virdell (R) +5 · 26 cosponsors
  Relating to municipal and county firearm buyback programs.

  AI summary Prohibits local governments from running buyback programs that remove guns from circulation or let people sell without prosecution fear, so more ability for civilians to own and transfer firearms without local interference.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXHB1506 2025-2026By Trent Ashby (R) +1 · 3 cosponsors
  Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain retired county court judges.

  AI summary Expands eligibility for a license to carry a handgun to include retired judges of constitutional or statutory county courts who served at least 48 months, so more people can legally carry handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXHB1403 2025-2026By Cody Harris (R) +3 · 8 cosponsors
  Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits state agencies and contractors from requiring foster homes to disclose specific firearm types or changes in them, and limits use and disclosure of such information, so fewer restrictions on firearm owners in foster homes.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXHB1234 2025-2026By Ryan Guillen (R) +1 · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to certain procedures required for the denial of certain applications for a license to carry a handgun.

  AI summary Requires the department to give notice of a potential denial and an opportunity to submit additional materials before denying a license to carry based on a medical advisory board opinion, so applicants have more procedural protections before a denial.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXSB2284 2025-2026By Adam Hinojosa (R) +1 · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate certain matters related to firearms, air guns, archery equipment, and other weapons and related supplies.

  AI summary Broadens state preemption of local rules on firearms, air guns, archery equipment, knives, ammunition, and accessories by expanding the list of covered items and activities that municipalities and counties are barred from regulating, and narrows the exceptions allowing local regulation.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: Law May 28, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXSB872 2025-2026By Brian Birdwell (R) +1 · 2 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a vehicle involving theft of a firearm; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary 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.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 26, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
• TXSB1524 2025-2026By Mayes Middleton (R) +3 · 8 cosponsors
  Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits requiring foster homes to disclose specific firearm types or changes in them, and limits use of such information to only checking presence, so fewer restrictions on firearm storage in homes with foster children.

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 22, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB214 2025-2026By Ryan Guillen (R) +1 · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the prosecution of certain criminal offenses regarding the acquisition of firearms, firearm and ammunition smuggling, and terrorism.

  AI summary Adds a new state jail felony for a person prohibited from possessing a firearm who knowingly makes a material false statement on a required purchase or transfer form submitted to a licensed dealer, so more restrictions on prohibited persons acquiring firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 22, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXSB1065 2025-2026By Bob Hall (R) +1 · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to a required provision in certain governmental entity contracts regarding the carrying of handguns by license holders; providing civil penalties.

  AI summary Requires government contracts for use of public property to include a provision barring contractors from prohibiting licensed handgun carry (except where already banned by law), and imposes civil penalties on contractors who do so, so more ability to carry firearms on such property.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 21, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXSB870 2025-2026By Brian Birdwell (R) +1 · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to the open carrying of a handgun by a uniformed school marshal.

  AI summary Allows uniformed school marshals to openly carry a handgun on their person while on school premises, whereas prior law limited them to concealed carry.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, storage minors
  Stage: Law May 19, 2025: Effective immediately
• TXHB1794 2025-2026By Carl Tepper (R) +1 · 10 cosponsors
  Relating to the carrying of concealed handguns by handgun license holders on the premises of certain polling places on the day of an election or while early voting is in progress.

  AI summary Allows licensed handgun carriers to possess concealed handguns at polling places on election day or during early voting (unless otherwise prohibited by law), where it was previously a criminal offense under Penal Code 46.03(a)(2).

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 19, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB5014 2025-2026By Carrie Isaac (R) +3 · 13 cosponsors
  Relating to the rights of special forces veterans who hold a license to carry a handgun.

  AI summary Adds special forces veterans with LTC to the list of persons exempt from unlawful carry offenses under Penal Code 46.02 and 46.03, allowing them to carry in more places than other LTC holders.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 16, 2025: Co-sponsor authorized
• TXHB2993 2025-2026By Ryan Guillen (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the carrying of a handgun by a county commissioner in certain locations.

  AI summary Adds county commissioners (if LTC holders) to the list of persons exempt from handgun carry prohibitions in certain locations, so more ability for them to carry handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 15, 2025: Received from the House
• TXHB2881 2025-2026By Carrie Isaac (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws restricting the acquisition, manufacture, or possession of ammunition in this state.

  AI summary Prohibits state and local agencies from assisting federal enforcement of new restrictions on ammunition purchase amounts, ID requirements for buying ammo, manufacturing limits, or component limits (and existing federal firearm rules), so less federal firearms restrictions are enforced in the state.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 15, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
• TXHB3138 2025-2026By Janie Lopez (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate certain matters related to firearms, air guns, archery equipment, and other weapons and related supplies.

  AI summary Expands state preemption of local firearm, air gun, archery, knife, and ammunition regulations by barring municipalities and counties from regulating transfer, possession, carrying, ownership, storage, transportation, licensing, registration, commerce, discharge at shooting ranges, and liability-ins

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  ↔Mixed gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 14, 2025: Laid on the table subject to call
• TXHB2215 2025-2026By Marc LaHood (R) +4 · 4 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to the carrying or possession of a handgun by certain retired attorneys representing the state.

  AI summary Adds certain retired state attorneys to the list of people exempt from handgun carry restrictions in Sections 46.02 and 46.03, so more ability to carry handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 14, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3669 2025-2026By Ryan Guillen (R) +3 · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Relating to the definition of firearm for purposes of certain criminal offenses.

  AI summary Excludes stun guns from the definition of 'firearm' in the Penal Code, so stun guns are no longer treated as firearms for criminal offenses that reference the definition.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 13, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
• TXHB3428 2025-2026By Tony Tinderholt (R)
  Relating to the required notice regarding the possession of a firearm on the premises of certain businesses; providing an administrative penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits all businesses except those getting 51%+ revenue from alcohol from displaying the 30.06-style 'no handgun' sign, so more places must allow licensed handgun carry.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, carry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 13, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
• TXHB2031 2025-2026By Keresa Richardson (R) +2 · 23 cosponsors
  Relating to the possession, carrying, transporting, or storing of a firearm or firearm ammunition by a tenant on the leased premises; providing a civil penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits landlords from banning tenants or guests from lawfully possessing, carrying, transporting, or storing firearms or ammunition in rental units, vehicles in provided parking, or other necessary locations on the premises (with civil penalties for violations), so more ability to keep firearms.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, industry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 13, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB1128 2025-2026By Carrie Isaac (R) +2 · 16 cosponsors
  Relating to the applicability to election judges of a prohibition on the carrying of a concealed handgun at a polling place.

  AI summary Exempts licensed election judges and early voting clerks from the prohibition on carrying a concealed handgun at a polling place, so more ability to carry firearms in that location.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 13, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2959 2025-2026By Jose Menendez (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to designating August as Firearm Safety Awareness Month.

  AI summary Designates August as Firearm Safety Awareness Month and promotes voluntary programs on safe and responsible firearm ownership, storage, and use, with no change to any legal restrictions or requirements.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 12, 2025: Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism
• TXHB644 2025-2026By Cecil Bell (R) +4
  Relating to the civil liability of certain businesses in connection with allowing concealed handguns on the business premises.

  AI summary Makes businesses less liable for damages from lawful concealed carry on their premises if they allow it without posting notice, so more ability to carry firearms without business facing lawsuits.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, carry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 12, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB2882 2025-2026By Carrie Isaac (R)
  Relating to the definition of short-barrel firearm for purposes of certain criminal offenses.

  AI summary Excludes handguns with stabilizing braces from the definition of short-barrel firearms, so fewer such weapons are treated as illegal short-barrel firearms under criminal law.

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 12, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB2180 2025-2026By Charles Cunningham (R)
  Relating to a waiver of the preservation of evidence and the return of a seized weapon in a criminal case.

  AI summary Allows defendants who plead guilty or nolo contendere to waive their right to request return of a seized weapon, enabling law enforcement to return it to others, use, sell, or destroy it after 120 days.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 12, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXHB4933 2025-2026By Pat Curry (R)
  Relating to the disposition of a seized weapon belonging to a person who is not prosecuted or convicted for an offense involving the weapon.

  AI summary Shortens the time for a magistrate to notify and release a seized weapon to its owner when there is no prosecution or conviction, and allows the law enforcement agency to request an order if the magistrate does not act within the period.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 10, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB4201 2025-2026By Nate Schatzline (R) +3⚠ check quote
  Relating to the locations where a handgun license holder may carry a handgun.

  AI summary Removes most location restrictions on licensed handgun carry (including at colleges, polling places, government offices, racetracks, airports, execution sites, bars, sporting events, correctional facilities, hospitals, mental hospitals, amusement parks, and government meetings), allowing licensed, h

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 7, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXSB82 2025-2026By Bob Hall (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to civil liability of a business in connection with prohibiting concealed handguns on the business premises.

  AI summary Makes it legally costly for businesses to post signs prohibiting concealed handguns by imposing liability for any criminal act on the premises, so more ability to carry firearms in businesses.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 5, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB658 2025-2026By Carl Tepper (R)
  Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.

  AI summary Expands the list of officers and retired law enforcement who may carry weapons in public establishments and removes some conditions on when community supervision and juvenile probation officers may carry, so greater ability to carry firearms.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 5, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXHB3924 2025-2026By Shelby Slawson (R) +1 · 8 cosponsors
  Relating to the open carrying of a handgun by a uniformed school marshal.

  AI summary Allows uniformed school marshals to openly carry a handgun on their person while on school premises, whereas prior law limited them to concealed carry.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, storage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 5, 2025: Laid on the table subject to call
• TXHB865 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D) +4
  Relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.

  AI summary Creates immunity from civil liability for federal firearms licensees and certain veterans organizations that enter firearm hold agreements (temporary storage at owner's request), except for unlawful conduct or gross negligence, so less liability for firearm-related businesses and organizations.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 1, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB2066 2025-2026By Wesley Virdell (R) +4 · 23 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files for certain defendants placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for the unlawful carrying of a handgun.

  AI summary Allows expunction of arrest records for defendants placed on deferred adjudication for unlawful carrying of a handgun (under pre-2021 law), reducing long-term consequences of such arrests.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 30, 2025: Considered in Calendars
• TXHB1617 2025-2026By Valoree Swanson (R) · 9 cosponsors
  Relating to exempting the intrastate manufacture of a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition from federal regulation.

  AI summary Declares that firearms, accessories, and ammunition manufactured and kept entirely within Texas are not subject to federal regulation under the commerce clause, so less federal restriction on their manufacture.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, weapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 30, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB4675 2025-2026By Cole Hefner (R)
  Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by a person not lawfully present in the United States.

  AI summary Creates a new state crime for firearm possession by anyone not lawfully present in the US, so less firearm access for that group.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 29, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB1696 2025-2026By Terry Canales (D) +4 · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to adding a designation on a person's driver's license or commercial driver's license indicating that the person is licensed to carry a handgun.

  AI summary Allows handgun license holders to elect a designation on their driver's or commercial driver's license showing they are licensed to carry, which can satisfy the display requirement when carrying, making it easier to carry and prove licensure.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 28, 2025: Referred to Transportation
• TXHB2385 2025-2026By Ryan Guillen (R) +2
  Relating to the eligibility of the National Rifle Association's Annual Meetings and Exhibits or another annual event of the National Rifle Association for funding under the major events reimbursement program.

  AI summary Adds the National Rifle Association's Annual Meetings and Exhibits to the list of events eligible for state funding under the major events reimbursement program, increasing state support for a major gun-rights organization's gathering.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 23, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB4476 2025-2026By Don McLaughlin (R)
  Relating to the waiver of jurisdiction by a juvenile court for certain children who are accused of committing certain offenses involving the use or exhibition of a firearm, the mandatory transfer of jurisdiction for those children to a criminal court, and an order of expunction issued with respect t

  AI summary Lowers the age for mandatory transfer of certain first-degree felony cases involving firearm use or exhibition from juvenile to adult criminal court (from 15 or 16 to 14), so more children face adult penalties for firearm-related offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 22, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB3789 2025-2026By Cole Hefner (R)
  Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain active and retired judicial officers.

  AI summary Expands eligibility for a license to carry a handgun to additional categories of active and retired judicial officers, including certain associate judges and federal judges, so more people in those roles can legally carry handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 14, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB2771 2025-2026By Richard Hayes (R) · 3 cosponsors
  Relating to the possession of a firearm by persons convicted of certain felony offenses.

  AI summary Extends the period during which certain felony convicts are barred from possessing firearms at their home from 5 years after release to a lifetime ban except at their residence, and applies the change retroactively to prior offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 14, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB259 2025-2026By Richard Hayes (R) +3 · 33 cosponsors
  Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

  AI summary Removes short-barrel firearms from the list of prohibited weapons in Texas Penal Code, so they can be possessed, manufactured, transported, repaired or sold without committing an offense (if NFA-registered).

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 14, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB2470 2025-2026By Wesley Virdell (R) +4 · 17 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to the age at which a person not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a firearm may carry a handgun or is eligible for a license to carry a handgun.

  AI summary Lowers the minimum age for carrying a handgun without a license and for obtaining a license to carry a handgun from 21 to 18 (for those not otherwise prohibited from possessing a firearm), so greater ability for 18-20 year olds to legally carry handguns.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 14, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB1337 2025-2026By Carrie Isaac (R) +3 · 18 cosponsors
  Relating to the recognition of a handgun license issued by another state.

  AI summary Removes the requirement for the governor to negotiate reciprocity agreements or issue proclamations based on background check standards for out-of-state handgun licenses, and repeals related subsections, so more out-of-state licenses will be recognized without additional conditions.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 14, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXSB2283 2025-2026By Adam Hinojosa (R) · 2 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to the rights of special forces veterans who hold a license to carry a handgun.

  AI summary Adds special forces veterans with a LTC bearing that designation to the list of persons exempt from unlawful carrying offenses under Penal Code 46.02 and 46.03, so more ability to carry in places otherwise restricted.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 9, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXSB2908 2025-2026By Cesar Blanco (D)
  Relating to the disposition of a firearm surrendered through a firearm buyback program administered by certain local law enforcement agencies.

  AI summary Requires local law enforcement agencies to destroy firearms received through buyback programs (by melting, shredding, crushing, or cutting in three places), with a narrow exception allowing sale only after a NICS background check confirms the buyer can lawfully possess it, and imposes disciplinary后果

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2202 2025-2026By Brian Birdwell (R) +1 · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the trafficking of a firearm to a foreign terrorist organization and to the unlawful transfer of firearms between this state and the United Mexican States; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Creates a new felony for intentionally or knowingly transferring a firearm to a known member of a foreign terrorist organization or someone intending to transfer it to such a member, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXHB5416 2025-2026By John Bryant (D)
  Relating to a prohibition on carrying a firearm across the international border of this state into Mexico; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Creates a new state crime for transporting a firearm to Mexico with intent to sell or purchasing with intent to transport for distribution, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB5399 2025-2026By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to certain criminal offenses concerning the unlawful transfer or purchase of certain weapons; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Adds a state jail felony for knowingly making a material false statement on a required federal or state firearm transfer form while prohibited from possessing a firearm, so more restrictions on prohibited persons acquiring firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  ↔Mixed gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB5170 2025-2026By AJ Louderback (R)
  Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment and changing the eligibility for community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses in which a firearm is used or exhibited and to certain consequences on conviction of certain offenses.

  AI summary Increases the minimum prison term to five years and restricts eligibility for community supervision, deferred adjudication, and parole for certain felonies when a firearm is used or exhibited, so less ability to avoid or shorten imprisonment when firearms are involved in listed offenses.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB5054 2025-2026By Jeff Leach (R)
  Relating to the open carrying of a handgun by a uniformed school marshal.

  AI summary Allows uniformed school marshals to openly carry a handgun on their person while on school premises, whereas prior law limited them to concealed carry.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, storage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB2620 2025-2026By Charles Creighton (R)
  Relating to the civil liability of certain businesses in connection with allowing concealed handguns on the business premises.

  AI summary Makes businesses less liable for damages from lawful concealed carry on their premises if they allow it without posting notice, so more ability to carry firearms without business facing lawsuits.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, carry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2556 2025-2026By Royce West (D)
  Relating to regulating the carrying of firearms on or within publicly owned fairgrounds and similar public facilities during certain events; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Authorizes local governments and private entities to prohibit firearm carry at publicly owned fairgrounds and similar facilities during events, with criminal penalties for violations, so more restrictions on where firearms may be carried.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB5041 2025-2026By Tony Tinderholt (R)
  Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by a person not lawfully present in the United States; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Creates a new state jail felony for firearm possession by anyone not lawfully present in the US, so fewer people can legally possess firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB5025 2025-2026By James Talarico (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the carrying of certain weapons on the premises of a public library; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits carrying handguns (even if licensed and holstered) on public library premises, so less ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB4983 2025-2026By Mike Schofield (R)
  Relating to an elective course on firearms safety for public high school students and a virtual course on firearms safety for the public.

  AI summary Creates and requires public high schools to potentially offer an elective course on firearms safety (with parental consent), and makes a virtual version available free to the public, so more education on safe firearm handling.

  ↑Expands gun accessother, storage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB4818 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R)
  Relating to the creation of an enhanced license designation for a license to carry a handgun and the locations in which the holder of that enhanced license may carry a handgun.

  AI summary Creates an 'enhanced' license to carry that requires extra training and experience but allows the holder to carry a concealed handgun in many locations that are otherwise off-limits under Penal Code 46.03, so more ability to carry firearms in restricted places.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB4808 2025-2026By Andy Hopper (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the carrying of weapons by staff in medical facilities.

  AI summary Creates an exception to the prohibition on weapons in certain medical facilities for employees of those facilities, allowing staff to carry weapons where they previously could not.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB4451 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R)
  Relating to possessing, manufacturing, transporting, repairing, or selling a machine gun.

  AI summary Removes machine guns from the list of prohibited weapons in state penal code (except for unregistered NFA items), so fewer state restrictions on machine guns.

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB4372 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to the prosecution of the offense of unlawful transfer of certain weapons.

  AI summary Expands the age limit for legal transfer of certain semi-automatic centerfire firearms or those over .22 caliber from 18 to 21, with new defenses and exceptions for military, hunters, and family, so more restrictions on young adults' access to those firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  ↔Mixed gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 1, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2095 2025-2026By Armando Martinez (D) +1
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of reckless discharge of a firearm in certain municipalities and counties.

  AI summary Expands the geographic scope of the state criminal offense for reckless discharge of a firearm by applying it to all counties with population of 500,000 or more (previously limited to the three largest counties) and to municipalities of 100,000 or more (previously 150,000 or more), so more places in

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 1, 2025: Referred directly to subcommittee by chair
• TXHB4216 2025-2026By Philip Cortez (D)
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun or a machine gun conversion device.

  AI summary Expands the definition of machine gun to include any firearm capable of shooting more than one shot automatically (removing the 'two shots' threshold) and newly defines and prohibits machine gun conversion devices (bump stocks and similar), so more restrictions on these accessories.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 31, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB4159 2025-2026By Ron Reynolds (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to prohibiting the manufacture, assembly, or ownership of unmarked firearms and other conduct involving certain firearms and component parts of firearms; creating criminal offenses; authorizing a fee.

  AI summary Requires serial numbers on unmarked firearms (including those assembled from kits or 3D-printed parts), prohibits sale/transfer of unmarked firearms except to law enforcement (which must destroy them), and bans manufacture/possession of 3D-printed firearm component parts, so more restrictions on un-

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 31, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB4141 2025-2026By Erin Zwiener (D)
  Relating to certain offenses that are associated with possessing, carrying, exhibiting, or using a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of school property.

  AI summary Expands the distance around schools where unlicensed carry of firearms is allowed by narrowing the definition of prohibited school premises to within 1,000 feet of the boundary and adding defenses for private property and vehicles in transit, so more ability to carry firearms near schools.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 27, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB4017 2025-2026By Rafael Anchia (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the carrying of handguns on the campuses of and certain other locations associated with institutions of higher education.

  AI summary Allows institutions of higher education to prohibit license holders from carrying handguns on campus, grounds, buildings, or vehicles, and makes it a criminal offense to carry there if the institution has established such rules and given notice, so more restrictions on where handguns may be carried.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry
  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 27, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB3876 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the definition of firearm for purposes of certain criminal offenses.

  AI summary Excludes stun guns from the definition of 'firearm' in the Penal Code, so stun guns are no longer subject to the criminal offenses and restrictions that apply to firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 27, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB2412 2025-2026By Brent Hagenbuch (R)
  Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for firearms, ammunition, and other related items sold during a limited period.

  AI summary Creates a temporary sales tax exemption for firearms, ammunition, and accessories, reducing the cost to buyers and thereby increasing ability to purchase them.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to Finance
• TXSB2305 2025-2026By Nathan Johnson (D)
  Relating to extreme risk protective orders; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Creates a process for family, household members, or peace officers to seek court-issued extreme risk protective orders that prohibit a respondent from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms based on a finding of immediate danger, requires relinquishment of firearms and suspension of

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2293 2025-2026By Borris Miles (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the carrying of certain weapons on the premises of a public library; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits carrying handguns (even if licensed and holstered) on public library premises, so less ability to carry firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3591 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R)
  Relating to prohibiting contracts between certain state agencies and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

  AI summary Prohibits state agencies from contracting with the ATF, limiting state cooperation with federal firearms enforcement.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3587 2025-2026By Don McLaughlin (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to firearm safety instruction in public schools and certain private schools.

  AI summary Requires firearm safety instruction for students in grades 6-12 that teaches steps to follow if encountering a firearm, based on an accident prevention program, so more education on safe storage and handling around children.

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB3584 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to the carrying of a handgun by certain persons between 18 and 21 years of age.

  AI summary Allows 18-20 year olds who complete handgun proficiency and hunter education courses to carry handguns, where they were previously prohibited, so more ability to carry firearms for that age group.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB2195 2025-2026By Nathan Johnson (D)
  Relating to the reporting of certain orders and convictions to the Department of Public Safety and Federal Bureau of Investigation for use with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the transfer of firearms.

  AI summary Requires faster and more complete reporting of family-violence protective orders and misdemeanor convictions to DPS and the FBI for use in the NICS, so more prohibited persons are flagged during firearm-purchase background checks.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, red flag erpo
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 24, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2156 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D)
  Relating to firearm liability insurance for certain firearm owners; providing a civil penalty.

  AI summary Requires firearm owners to obtain and maintain liability insurance to cover damages from negligent or willful acts involving the firearm, with civil penalties and possible injunctions for violations, so increases legal and financial obligations tied to firearm ownership.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 24, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3541 2025-2026By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to certain criminal offenses concerning the unlawful transfer or purchase of certain weapons; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Adds a state jail felony for knowingly making a material false statement on a required federal or state firearm transfer form while prohibited from possessing a firearm, increasing penalties for straw purchases and prohibited-person purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 24, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB3480 2025-2026By Nate Schatzline (R)
  Relating to a required provision in certain governmental entity contracts regarding the carrying of handguns by license holders.

  AI summary Requires government contracts for property use to prohibit contractors from banning licensed handgun carriers (including by posting 30.06/30.07 notices), except where already barred by law, so greater ability to carry on such property.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 24, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3436 2025-2026By Trey Martinez Fischer (D)
  Relating to the definition of a child for purposes of the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.

  AI summary Raises the age threshold in the definition of 'child' from under 17 to under 18 for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child, so the law applies to one additional year of age and covers more situations where access to a firearm by a minor is criminalized.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB3430 2025-2026By Tony Tinderholt (R)
  Relating to a required provision in certain governmental entity contracts regarding the carrying of handguns by license holders.

  AI summary Requires government contracts for property use to prohibit contractors from banning licensed handgun carriers (including by posting 30.06/30.07 notices), except where already barred by law, so greater ability to carry handguns on such property.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3419 2025-2026By Linda Garcia (D)
  Relating to the establishment of the Texas Do-Not-Sell Registry for firearms.

  AI summary Creates a voluntary self-exclusion registry that feeds individuals' information into the NICS background check system, so that licensed dealers will be blocked from selling or transferring firearms to those who have opted in.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB3264 2025-2026By Donna Howard (D)
  Relating to the inclusion of firearm safety instruction in the required health curriculum for public school students.

  AI summary Adds required firearm safety instruction focused on accident prevention to the public school health curriculum, so more students receive training on safe storage and response to reduce accidental shootings involving minors.

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 20, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB3107 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the development of a model policy by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System for the enforcement and implementation of state laws regarding certain persons prohibited by law from possessing a firearm or ammunition.

  AI summary Creates a model policy for enforcement of laws on persons prohibited from possessing firearms, including transfer/return procedures, due process notice, and proof of compliance, so more consistent removal of firearms from prohibited persons.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 20, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB3065 2025-2026By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to the disposition of a firearm surrendered through a firearm buyback program administered by certain local law enforcement agencies.

  AI summary Requires local law enforcement agencies to destroy firearms received through buyback programs (by melting, shredding, or cutting in multiple places), with a narrow exception allowing sale only after a NICS background check confirms the buyer can lawfully possess it, and imposes disciplinary action (

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 20, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2769 2025-2026By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to persons under 21 (with exceptions), so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 19, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2759 2025-2026By Wesley Virdell (R) +4 · 12 cosponsors
  Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of certain felony offenses.

  AI summary Extends the prohibition on possessing firearms for people convicted of a broader list of felonies (including many violent and some non-violent offenses) to any location other than their home after five years post-release, so more restrictions on firearm possession by felons.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 19, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2727 2025-2026By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to the creation of certain criminal offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows.

  AI summary Requires background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows (including private sales) and record-keeping, with criminal penalties for noncompliance, so more restrictions on firearm purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 18, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2650 2025-2026By Salman Bhojani (D)
  Relating to the reporting of certain orders and convictions to the Department of Public Safety and Federal Bureau of Investigation for use with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the transfer of firearms.

  AI summary Requires faster and more consistent reporting of protective orders and family violence misdemeanor convictions to DPS and the FBI for use in the NICS, so more prohibited persons are flagged during firearm purchase background checks.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, red flag erpo
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 18, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2629 2025-2026By Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos (D)
  Relating to requiring a person convicted of an offense involving family violence or a person who is the subject of a protective order to surrender firearms owned by the person; authorizing a fee.

  AI summary Requires people convicted of family violence or subject to certain protective orders to surrender their firearms (with procedures for temporary holding or sale if they regain eligibility), so more restrictions on firearm possession for those individuals.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, storage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 18, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2606 2025-2026By John Bryant (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the unlawful acquisition, purchase, and transfer of certain weapons; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Creates new criminal offense for possession of defined assault weapons by those under 21 and bans their sale/transfer to those under 21, so fewer people can legally possess these firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 18, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB1900 2025-2026By Joan Huffman (R)
  Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by a person not lawfully present in the United States; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Creates a new state crime for firearm possession by people not lawfully present in the US, so fewer people can legally possess firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXHJR116 2025-2026By Wesley Virdell (R) +4
  Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that federal authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, sale, or use of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in this state is not recognized by this state.

  AI summary Adds a state constitutional provision declaring that the state does not recognize federal authority to regulate firearms, accessories, and ammunition, which would block state cooperation with or recognition of federal gun regulations.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB2571 2025-2026By Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos (D)
  Relating to the prosecution of the offenses of unlawful carrying of certain weapons and unlawful transfer of certain weapons.

  AI summary Raises the age from 18 to 21 for the offense of carrying a location-restricted knife without exceptions, and for the offense of selling/renting/giving firearms (including assault-style weapons), clubs, or location-restricted knives to those under that age.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2570 2025-2026By John Bryant (D)
  Relating to extreme risk protective orders and certain other protective orders prohibiting possession of a firearm; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Creates a process for family, household members, or peace officers to petition for extreme risk protective orders that prohibit respondents from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms based on a finding of immediate danger of causing bodily injury, and requires relinquishment of any

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB2393 2025-2026By Trey Martinez Fischer (D)
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.

  AI summary Adds 'a device designed and intended to make a handgun capable of automatically shooting more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger' (auto-sears or switches) to the list of prohibited items whose possession, manufacture, transport, repair or sale is a criminal

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2382 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D)
  Relating to the unlawful transfer or purchase of certain weapons; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Adds a new offense for a prohibited person to knowingly make a material false statement on a required firearm transfer form submitted to a licensed dealer, and for purchasing or attempting to purchase a firearm with intent to deliver it to a prohibited person, so more restrictions on prohibited or '

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2381 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D) +1 · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the reporting of lost or stolen firearms; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires owners to report lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement within 10 days or face a criminal penalty, and requires peace officers to forward those reports to a state database and the NCIC, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  =No change to gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2380 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D) +1 · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of firearms to certain recipients.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for legal transfer of any firearm from 18 to 21 (with an exception for peace officers and military), so fewer people under 21 can legally acquire firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2366 2025-2026By Jared Patterson (R)
  Relating to the applicability to election judges of a prohibition on the carrying of a concealed handgun at a polling place.

  AI summary Exempts licensed election judges and early voting clerks from the prohibition on carrying a concealed handgun at a polling place, so more ability to carry firearms in that location.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2356 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D) +1
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.

  AI summary Adds 'a device designed and intended to make a handgun capable of automatically shooting more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger' (auto-sears or similar) to the list of prohibited items whose possession, manufacture, transport, repair or sale is a criminal (

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2250 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the criminal offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'child' to under 18 (from under 17), narrows what counts as 'secure' storage to require a locked container or trigger lock (removing broader 'reasonable steps' language), removes the 'readily dischargeable' qualifier and one affirmative defense, so more criminal liability.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2241 2025-2026By Harold Dutton (D)
  Relating to firearms; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Bans manufacture, distribution, importation, sale, loan, and transfer of assault weapons, .50 caliber rifles, and unserialized firearms, and restricts sales of precursor parts and transfers of firearms to those under 21 (with limited exceptions), so fewer such items can be obtained in the state.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, industry liability, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2162 2025-2026By Matthew Shaheen (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the classification of certain sales of firearms as occasional sales for purposes of sales and use taxes.

  AI summary Raises the annual sales limit for occasional (untaxed) sales of firearms from $3,000 to $6,000 while keeping the same limit for other property, so more private firearm sales become exempt from sales tax.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Ways & Means
• TXHB2161 2025-2026By Erin Gamez (D)
  Relating to federal firearm reporting for persons recently released from emergency detention.

  AI summary Requires reporting to NICS of persons released from emergency detention who are federally prohibited from firearm activities, and advises them of the prohibition, so more background-check enforcement of federal firearm restrictions.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2047 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.

  AI summary Increases the penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child from a Class C to a Class A misdemeanor (and repeals the exception that made it a state jail felony in some cases), so more punishment for unsafe firearm storage around children.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB2044 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D) · 5 cosponsors
  Relating to certain offenses and conduct subject to expulsion that are associated with possessing, carrying, exhibiting, or using a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of school property.

  AI summary Expands the distance around schools where unlicensed carry of a firearm is prohibited from 300 feet to 1,000 feet, while adding a defense to prosecution for lawful possession on private residence property or in a vehicle in transit or stopped for legitimate purpose without entering school grounds.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB1956 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the seizure of firearms by a peace officer during the emergency detention of certain persons who may have a mental illness.

  AI summary Changes 'may' to 'shall' for seizure of any firearm found in possession of a person during emergency mental illness detention, so more firearms are seized and removed from potentially dangerous persons.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, storage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1923 2025-2026By Wesley Virdell (R) +4 · 13 cosponsors
  Relating to removing the requirement that an applicant for or holder of a license to carry a handgun provide fingerprints.

  AI summary Removes the fingerprint submission requirement for LTC applicants and holders, so fewer barriers to obtaining or renewing a license to carry a handgun.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1908 2025-2026By Nate Schatzline (R)
  Relating to the carrying of a handgun while intoxicated and to the possession or carrying of a handgun by a license holder in certain locations selling or serving alcoholic beverages.

  AI summary Allows licensed handgun carriers to possess or carry a handgun in certain locations selling or serving alcoholic beverages if they are not intoxicated, so more ability to carry firearms in those places.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB1739 2025-2026By Carl Tepper (R)
  Relating to the notice given by a property owner prohibiting certain persons from carrying certain firearms on the property.

  AI summary Standardizes and simplifies the specific signage and language property owners must use to prohibit firearms (including open or concealed carry by license holders), making it easier and less burdensome for owners to provide legally effective notice that bars carrying on their property.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary, carry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1715 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R) +3
  Relating to a required provision in certain governmental entity contracts regarding the carrying of handguns by license holders.

  AI summary Requires government contracts for property use to prohibit contractors from banning licensed handgun carriers (including via 30.06/30.07 signs), unless already barred by law, so greater ability to carry on such property.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1748 2025-2026By Carol Alvarado (D)
  Relating to notice for certain defendants regarding the unlawful possession or acquisition of a firearm or ammunition and a related affidavit of firearm dispossession.

  AI summary Requires persons convicted of family-violence misdemeanors to surrender or transfer all firearms and ammunition and file an affidavit confirming dispossession, so less firearm access for those persons.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, storage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 13, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1712 2025-2026By Roland Gutierrez (D)
  Relating to gun storage; creating an offense.

  AI summary Expands the age of 'young adult' from under 17 to under 21, broadens the offense to cover access by this larger group, and requires secure storage or other preventive steps, so more restrictions on how adults store firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 13, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1711 2025-2026By Roland Gutierrez (D)
  Relating to prohibiting 3D-printed firearms; creating an offense.

  AI summary Bans manufacture, sale, transfer, possession and distribution of digital schematics for 3D-printed firearms and components, so less ability to make or acquire them.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 13, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1668 2025-2026By Joan Huffman (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns.

  AI summary Adds devices that convert handguns to automatic fire to the list of prohibited items under Penal Code 46.05, so more restrictions on such devices.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 12, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXHB1692 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of unlawful transfer of a firearm.

  AI summary Expands the list of prohibited transferees for firearm transfers by adding people with certain mental health adjudications or guardianships, so more restrictions on who can receive firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 12, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1599 2025-2026By Jon Rosenthal (D)
  Relating to a handgun safety course required for the transfer of a handgun.

  AI summary Requires a handgun safety course certificate before any transfer of a handgun, so more restrictions on handgun transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 12, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1556 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to persons under 21 (with exceptions), so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 12, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB1658 2025-2026By Roland Gutierrez (D) +8⚠ check quote
  Relating to regulating certain firearm transfers, possession of certain firearms, and protective orders prohibiting possession of a firearm; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.

  AI summary Bans possession of defined assault weapons (with listed features like pistol grips, folding stocks, large magazines, etc.) by those under 21 and prohibits their transfer to those under 21, so less ability to own or possess those firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks, carry, red flag erpo, storage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1657 2025-2026By Roland Gutierrez (D) +6
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to persons under 21 (with exceptions), so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1385 2025-2026By Joan Huffman (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the unlawful acquisition of certain weapons; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Adds a new offense for acquiring a firearm with intent to deliver it to a person known to be prohibited from possessing firearms, and makes that a state jail felony, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXHB1487 2025-2026By AJ Louderback (R)
  Relating to the removal of a fee for the issuance of an original, duplicate, modified, or renewed license to carry a handgun.

  AI summary Removes the $40 application and license fee (and related fees for nonresidents, judicial officers, and instructors) for obtaining or renewing a license to carry a handgun, so lower cost barrier to legal carry.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1352 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to a law enforcement agency policy regarding the discharge of a firearm by a peace officer at or in the direction of a moving vehicle.

  AI summary Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy that prohibits officers from shooting at moving vehicles except when necessary to defend against deadly force from means other than the vehicle itself, so fewer situations where officers may discharge firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB1603 2025-2026By Adam Hinojosa (R)
  Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for firearms, ammunition, and other related items.

  AI summary Exempts sales of firearms, ammunition, and accessories from sales and use taxes, reducing the cost of buying them.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Finance
• TXHB1340 2025-2026By Pat Curry (R)
  Relating to certain federal law enforcement agents serving as armed security officers at public schools and the authority of the chief of school safety and security for the Texas Education Agency to carry a weapon on public school grounds.

  AI summary Expands the list of authorized armed security personnel at public schools to include certain federal law enforcement agents and grants the chief of school safety and security explicit authority to carry a weapon on school grounds, increasing the number of people allowed to carry firearms there.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB1270 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by persons convicted of certain misdemeanor offenses in this state.

  AI summary Extends the period during which people convicted of certain violent misdemeanors (including family violence) are barred from possessing firearms, from the current 2 years to 5 years after release from confinement or supervision.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1217 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.

  AI summary Creates immunity from civil liability for federal firearms licensees who enter voluntary firearm hold agreements (temporary storage at owner's request), except for unlawful conduct or gross negligence, so less liability for dealers storing guns.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, storage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
• TXHB1205 2025-2026By Gina Hinojosa (D)
  Relating to the attempted acquisition of a firearm by a person prohibited from possessing a firearm.

  AI summary Requires licensed firearms dealers to notify DPS when NICS shows a prohibited person is attempting to buy a firearm, and requires DPS to investigate and refer for possible prosecution, so more enforcement against prohibited persons attempting firearm purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1187 2025-2026By Christian Manuel (D)
  Relating to an elective course on community safety and firearm safety for certain public high school students.

  AI summary Adds an optional high-school elective that includes firearm safety instruction, state and federal firearm laws, and handgun proficiency classroom material, increasing student exposure to firearm education.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB1150 2025-2026By Penny Morales Shaw (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, so fewer young adults can legally acquire them.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1138 2025-2026By Erin Gamez (D)
  Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate or prohibit the carrying of a firearm on the premises of certain libraries.

  AI summary Allows municipalities and counties to regulate or prohibit firearms in municipal or county libraries (with exceptions for certain authorized carriers), so more local restrictions on carrying firearms in those locations.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB1040 2025-2026By Chris Turner (D) +1
  Relating to the prosecution of the offense of possessing or carrying certain weapons in certain facilities or residences providing services to individuals with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability.

  AI summary Adds certain group homes and residential facilities for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities to the list of places where unlicensed carry of handguns is prohibited, while allowing licensed carry with no effective notice of prohibition, so more restrictions on unlicensed carry in a

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB1456 2025-2026By Brent Hagenbuch (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the definition of firearm for purposes of certain criminal offenses.

  AI summary Excludes less-lethal projectile devices from the definition of 'firearm' used in criminal offenses under Chapter 46 of the Penal Code, so fewer restrictions on those devices.

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXSB1421 2025-2026By Royce West (D)
  Relating to less-lethal force weapons, including a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving the use of a less lethal force weapon by a peace officer, and policies for law enforcement agencies concerning use of less-lethal force weapons.

  AI summary Requires law enforcement agencies to equip officers with less-lethal force weapons (including stun guns) and adopt/use policies on their use, while providing a justification defense for officers using them in compliance with training, policy, and standards.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXHB956 2025-2026By Cassandra Garcia Hernandez (D)
  Relating to the reporting of certain orders and convictions to the Department of Public Safety and Federal Bureau of Investigation for use with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the transfer of firearms.

  AI summary Requires faster and more consistent reporting of protective orders and family violence misdemeanor convictions to DPS and the FBI for use in the NICS, so that more prohibited persons are flagged during firearm purchase background checks.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  ↔Mixed gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB925 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R) · 4 cosponsors
  Relating to the applicability of a defense to prosecution for an offense relating to carrying a handgun in certain prohibited locations and to repealing associated notice requirements.

  AI summary Repeals Penal Code sections 46.15(n) and (o) that had required notice of handgun-prohibited locations to trigger the defense to prosecution for unlawful carry, so the defense now applies without such notice and fewer restrictions on lawful carry.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB920 2025-2026By Ben Bumgarner (R) +3 · 8 cosponsors
  Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for firearms, ammunition, and other related items.

  AI summary Exempts sales of firearms, ammunition, and accessories from sales and use taxes, reducing the cost to buyers and thereby increasing ability to buy and own them.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Ways & Means
• TXHB915 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R)
  Relating to the repeal of the authority of a commanding officer of the state militia to prohibit the sale or exchange of arms, ammunition, or explosives.

  AI summary Repeals a statute allowing a commanding officer of the state militia to prohibit the sale or exchange of arms, ammunition, or explosives, so fewer restrictions on firearms and ammunition sales.

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB893 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to extreme risk protective orders; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Creates a process for family, household members, or prosecutors to seek court orders prohibiting a person with serious mental illness from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms, and requires relinquishment of any such firearms, so more restrictions on firearm access for those at a

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB889 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Expands the age of a 'child' to under 18 (from under 17), narrows affirmative defenses for access, adds an exception for authorized access for lawful purposes, and increases the penalty to a third-degree felony when a non-resident is killed or seriously injured by the discharged firearm, so more and

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB883 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to requiring a licensed firearms dealer to report certain sales or transfers of multiple firearms or firearm magazines to law enforcement; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires licensed dealers to report multiple sales of two or more firearms or four or more magazines to the Department of Public Safety and local sheriffs within 24 hours, with criminal penalties for noncompliance, so more dealer reporting and law-enforcement awareness of multiple purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB877 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain firearm magazines to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits the knowing purchase or receipt of certain firearm magazines by people barred from possessing the corresponding firearm, so more restrictions on magazine access.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB874 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to requiring a licensed firearms dealer to report certain sales or transfers of multiple semiautomatic rifles to law enforcement; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires licensed dealers to report multiple sales of certain semiautomatic rifles to state and local law enforcement within 24 hours, so more monitoring and potential restrictions on bulk rifle purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB857 2025-2026By Joseph Moody (D)
  Relating to requiring certain persons prohibited by law from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm to dispose of firearms owned, possessed, or controlled by the person.

  AI summary Requires persons subject to firearm prohibitions (from felony or family violence convictions, protective orders, or bond/community supervision conditions) to dispose of their firearms within 10 days and submit an affidavit confirming disposal or non-possession, so more enforcement of existing bans.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB834 2025-2026By Diego Bernal (D)
  Relating to limiting the locations where a person may carry a firearm other than a handgun in certain counties; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Creates a new offense for carrying a long gun outside of one's own premises, vehicle, or authorized private property in large or border-adjacent counties, so more restrictions on carrying firearms other than handguns.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB828 2025-2026By Diego Bernal (D)
  Relating to the creation of certain criminal offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows; authorizing a fee.

  AI summary Requires background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows (including private sales) and requires gun show promoters to ensure or conduct such checks, so more background checks before gun transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB808 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the creation of certain criminal offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows.

  AI summary Requires background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows (including private sales) and requires gun show promoters to ensure or conduct such checks, so more background checks before gun transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB770 2025-2026By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to prohibiting a sex offender from possessing a firearm.

  AI summary Prohibits sex offenders required to register from possessing a firearm, so less ability for that group to own or carry firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB737 2025-2026By Donna Howard (D)
  Relating to the use of dynamic message signs for the Keep 'Em Safe Texas Gun Storage Campaign.

  AI summary Requires the state transportation department to use dynamic message signs to promote the Department of Public Safety's safe firearm storage campaign, increasing public messaging about safe gun storage.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB711 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a person following the person's conviction of certain family violence misdemeanors.

  AI summary Extends the period during which a person convicted of a family-violence Class A misdemeanor is prohibited from possessing a firearm from the prior law's duration to the fifth anniversary of release from confinement or supervision.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB682 2025-2026By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to the creation of certain criminal offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows.

  AI summary Requires background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows (including private sales) and requires gun show promoters to ensure or conduct such checks, so more background checks before gun transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB655 2025-2026By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to extreme risk protective orders; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Creates a process for family, household members, or peace officers to seek court-issued extreme risk protective orders that prohibit a respondent from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms based on a finding of immediate danger, requires relinquishment of firearms and suspension of

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB639 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the inclusion by a licensed firearms dealer of a firearm safety device or secure firearm storage device and certain information with the transfer of a firearm.

  AI summary Requires licensed dealers to include a firearm safety device or secure storage device with each firearm transfer (with limited exception), and provide information on safe storage, so more secure storage of firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB623 2025-2026By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unlawful transfer of a semiautomatic rifle.

  AI summary Creates a new state jail felony for knowingly selling, renting, leasing, transferring or offering to transfer any semiautomatic rifle, so fewer people can legally acquire one.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB601 2025-2026By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.

  AI summary Increases the penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child from a Class C to a Class A misdemeanor (and repeals the prior exception provision), so more punishment for unsafe firearm storage around children.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB592 2025-2026By Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (D)
  Relating to designating August as Firearm Safety Awareness Month.

  AI summary Designates August as Firearm Safety Awareness Month to promote awareness of safe and responsible firearm ownership, storage, and use, including through accident prevention programs with materials for all ages.

  =No change to gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 3, 2025: Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism
• TXHB579 2025-2026By Ron Reynolds (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits transfer of semiautomatic rifles to anyone under 21, so less access to those firearms for that age group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 3, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB547 2025-2026By Christina Morales (D)
  Relating to the reporting of lost or stolen firearms; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires owners to report lost or stolen firearms to police within 24 hours or face a criminal penalty, and requires police to forward reports to a national database, so more restrictions and reporting requirements on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  =No change to gun accessstorage minors
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 3, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXSB1326 2025-2026By Nathan Johnson (D)
  Relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.

  AI summary Creates immunity from civil liability for federal firearms licensees who enter voluntary firearm hold agreements (temporary storage at owner's request), except for unlawful conduct or gross negligence, so less liability for dealers storing guns.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1286 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +1
  Relating to the imposition of a sales tax on ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories to provide funding for the family violence program in the Health and Human Services Commission.

  AI summary Imposes a 1% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories sold by dealers, increasing the cost of these items and generating revenue for family violence programs.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Finance
• TXHB498 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to requiring a person convicted of an offense involving family violence or a person who is the subject of a family violence protective order to surrender firearms owned by the person.

  AI summary Requires people subject to a family violence protective order or magistrate's emergency protection order (or convicted of family violence) to surrender their firearms, so less ability for those people to possess firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB481 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unlawful possession or transfer of a large-capacity magazine.

  AI summary Creates a new criminal offense for possessing or transferring magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, so fewer people can legally own or acquire such magazines.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB479 2025-2026By Diego Bernal (D)
  Relating to requiring a licensed firearms dealer to report certain sales or transfers of multiple rifles to law enforcement; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires licensed firearms dealers to report multiple rifle sales or transfers (two or more to the same buyer within five business days) to state and local law enforcement, so more dealer reporting and potential restrictions on multiple rifle purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB478 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to extreme risk protective orders; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Creates a process for family, household members, or peace officers to seek court-issued extreme risk protective orders that prohibit a respondent from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms based on a finding of immediate danger, requires relinquishment of firearms and suspension of

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB461 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to the regulation of certain firearm transfers; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Requires NICS background checks through a licensed dealer for all private firearm transfers (with narrow exceptions), so more restrictions on who can acquire firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB443 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unlawful possession or transfer of an assault weapon.

  AI summary Creates a new criminal offense for knowing possession or transfer of defined assault weapons (including certain semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, pistols, and conversion kits), with a Class A misdemeanor penalty and limited defenses, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB435 2025-2026By Jon Rosenthal (D)
  Relating to prohibiting carrying a firearm while intoxicated; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Creates a new criminal offense for carrying a firearm while intoxicated in a public place (with limited exceptions), so more restrictions on carrying firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry
  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB432 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires a NICS background check through a licensed dealer for nearly all private firearm transfers (with narrow exceptions for family and dealer-to-dealer), so more restrictions on private firearm transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB397 2025-2026By Suleman Lalani (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires private firearm sellers to have a licensed dealer run a NICS background check before transferring the gun, so more background checks on private sales.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB396 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a person following the person's conviction of certain family violence misdemeanors.

  AI summary Extends the period during which a person convicted of a family violence misdemeanor is prohibited from possessing a firearm, from the prior law's end date to the fifth anniversary of release from confinement or supervision.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB384 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, so fewer young adults can legally acquire them.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB352 2025-2026By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of firearms to certain recipients.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for legal transfer of any firearm from 18 to 21, so fewer people under 21 can legally acquire firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB313 2025-2026By Ann Johnson (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to prohibiting the transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for transfer of certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 and makes such transfers to under-21s a state jail felony, so fewer young adults can legally acquire those rifles.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB306 2025-2026By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to prohibiting certain transfers, purchases, and possession of firearms; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Raises the minimum age for lawful purchase and possession of any firearm from 18 to 21, and makes sales of firearms to those under 21 a state jail felony (previously only for handguns).

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB286 2025-2026By Christina Morales (D)
  Relating to a study by the Department of Public Safety on stolen firearms.

  AI summary Requires a state agency to study and report on the use of stolen firearms in crimes since 1980, with no change to any laws governing firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 27, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB260 2025-2026By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to prohibiting sex offenders from purchasing firearms.

  AI summary Adds a prohibition on firearm purchases by people required to register as sex offenders, so less ability for that group to buy firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 27, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB234 2025-2026By Ann Johnson (D)
  Relating to extreme risk protective orders; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Creates a process for family, household members, or peace officers to seek court-issued extreme risk protective orders that prohibit a respondent from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms based on evidence of serious mental illness and dangerous behavior, requires relinquishment/s

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 27, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
• TXHB226 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to creating the criminal offense of the manufacture of a firearm without a federal license.

  AI summary Creates a state crime for manufacturing a firearm without a federal license, so more restrictions on making firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 27, 2025: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
• TXHB162 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R) · 50 cosponsors
  Relating to prohibiting the recognition, service, and enforcement of extreme risk protective orders; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits state and local entities from recognizing, serving, or enforcing extreme risk protective orders (red-flag orders), and makes it a state jail felony to do so unless issued under Texas law, so more ability to own and possess firearms without risk of red-flag removal.

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo, preemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 27, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB83 2025-2026By Bob Hall (R) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Relating to the carrying of concealed handguns by handgun license holders on the campus of a school district or open-enrollment charter school.

  AI summary Allows licensed handgun holders to carry concealed handguns on public school campuses and prohibits school districts or charter schools from banning or restricting such carry, so greater ability to carry firearms on school premises.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary, industry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 25, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXSB908 2025-2026By Cesar Blanco (D)
  Relating to the regulation of certain firearm transfers, to the unlawful possession or acquisition of a firearm or ammunition, and to reports of lost or stolen firearms; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Requires background checks through a licensed dealer for private sales and transfers of firearms (with limited exceptions), so more restrictions on who can acquire firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 13, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB449 2025-2026By Mayes Middleton (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the appearance of a license to carry a handgun, personal identification certificate, or driver's license issued to a person who is not a citizen of the United States.

  AI summary Requires licenses to carry a handgun issued to non-citizens to have a substantially different design and to display the word 'NONCITIZEN' on both sides, creating a visible distinction from citizen licenses.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 13, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXSB809 2025-2026By Royce West (D)
  Relating to the carrying of a firearm by a person who is a member of a criminal street gang; increasing a criminal penalty.

  AI summary Expands the prohibition on carrying a firearm for members of criminal street gangs who are engaged in certain offenses, by removing the prior limitation to handguns in a motor vehicle or watercraft and applying it to any firearm carried on or about the person.

  ↓Restricts gun accesscarry, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 7, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXSB808 2025-2026By Royce West (D)
  Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun or a machine gun conversion device.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'machine gun' by removing the 'two shots' threshold and newly defines and criminalizes possession, manufacture, transport, repair or sale of machine gun conversion devices (bump stocks and similar), so more restrictions on these accessories.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB793 2025-2026By Carol Alvarado (D)
  Relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a person following the person's conviction of certain family violence misdemeanors.

  AI summary Extends the period during which a person convicted of a family violence misdemeanor is prohibited from possessing a firearm, from the prior law's duration to five years after release from confinement or supervision.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB755 2025-2026By Mayes Middleton (R)
  Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for firearms, ammunition, and other related items sold during a limited period.

  AI summary Creates a temporary sales tax exemption for firearms, ammunition, and accessories during a three-day period each year, reducing the cost to buyers and thereby increasing ability to purchase them.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 7, 2025: Referred to Finance
• TXSB691 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D)
  Relating to the registration of firearms; creating a criminal offense; authorizing a fee.

  AI summary Requires residents and new residents to register firearms they acquire or possess with the state DPS, including detailed owner and firearm information, with a fee and criminal penalty for noncompliance, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB633 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D)
  Relating to certain offenses associated with possessing, carrying, exhibiting, or using a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of school property.

  AI summary Expands the school gun-free zone from school property to 1,000 feet around it and makes possession of a firearm there a new offense (unless authorized or in a passing vehicle), so more restrictions on firearms near schools.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXSB41 2025-2026By Judith Zaffirini (D) +1
  Relating to prohibiting certain transfers, purchases, and possession of assault weapons; creating criminal offenses.

  AI summary Bans the purchase and possession of defined assault weapons (including certain semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, pistols, and conversion kits) by those under 21, and prohibits their sale to those under 21, so less ability to buy or own those firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB394 2025-2026By Kevin Sparks (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files for certain defendants placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for the unlawful carrying of a handgun.

  AI summary Allows expunction of arrest records for defendants placed on deferred adjudication for unlawful carrying of a handgun (pre-2021 law), reducing long-term consequences of such arrests.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXSB357 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +1
  Relating to the reporting of lost or stolen firearms.

  AI summary Requires peace officers to report lost or stolen firearms to a state department that forwards them to the NCIC, and provides liability protection for owners who report within 24 hours, so more reporting of lost/stolen guns and less owner liability for harms caused by them after loss/theft.

  ↔Mixed gun accessother
  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB356 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +1
  Relating to the prosecution of the offense of unlawful transfer of a firearm.

  AI summary Expands the offense of unlawful transfer of a firearm to cover all firearms rather than only handguns in several provisions, and adds a new prohibition on making false statements on required transfer forms while prohibited from possessing a firearm, so more restrictions on firearm transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB355 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +1
  Relating to the notice given by a property owner prohibiting certain persons from carrying certain firearms on the property.

  AI summary Makes it easier for property owners to prohibit firearms (including open or concealed carry by license holders) by allowing simpler 'No firearms permitted' signs with a pictogram in addition to the previous detailed language requirements, so more private restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspreemption sanctuary, carry
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB354 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +1
  Relating to the carrying of concealed handguns on the campuses of and certain other locations associated with institutions of higher education.

  AI summary Allows license holders to carry concealed handguns on higher education campuses by default, while letting institutions prohibit them only after a student/staff/faculty referendum approves the ban, so more ability to carry firearms on campus.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB353 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +1⚠ check quote
  Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Requires a NICS background check through a licensed dealer for nearly all private firearm transfers (with narrow exceptions for family and dealer-to-dealer), so more restrictions on private firearm transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB298 2025-2026By Charles Perry (R)
  Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.

  AI summary Expands the list of officers (including community supervision officers, juvenile probation officers, and retired law enforcement officers) who may carry weapons in establishments serving the public, regardless of whether on duty, and clarifies related criminal liability for taking weapons from them.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
• TXSB195 2025-2026By Jose Menendez (D)
  Relating to a required waiting period for certain firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Imposes a 30-day waiting period between sale/lease/rental of a firearm and its delivery to buyers aged 18-20, so fewer immediate firearm transfers to that group.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB130 2025-2026By Bob Hall (R)
  Relating to exempting the intrastate manufacture of a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition from federal regulation.

  AI summary Declares that firearms, accessories, and ammunition manufactured and kept entirely within Texas are not subject to federal regulation under the commerce clause, so more ability to make them without federal oversight.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, weapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs

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