HBA-NMO H.B. 1000 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1000
By: Farrar
Criminal Jurisprudence
3/24/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law does not provide a criminal penalty for the failure to report
lost or stolen firearms.  H.B. 1000 provides that a person commits a Class
C misdemeanor if the person fails to report the theft or loss of the
person's firearm to the proper authority within 10 days of the theft or
loss of the weapon. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Chapter 46, Penal Code, by adding Section 46.14, as
follows: 

Sec. 46.14.  FAILURE TO REPORT LOST OR STOLEN FIREARM.  Provides that a
person commits a Class C misdemeanor if the person owns a firearm that is
subsequently stolen or lost unless the person, not later than the 10th day
after date on which the person realizes that the firearm has been lost or
stolen, reports the loss or theft to the sheriff of the county in which the
person reasonable believes the firearm was lost or stolen. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.