Ronald Grooms
- Republican
Author
Defines "licensed facility" to include gambling game facilities, satellite facilities, riverboats, and property that contains both a gambling game facility and a racetrack with live horse racing. Defines "law enforcement officer" to also include an off-duty law enforcement officer and a qualified retired law enforcement officer under 18 U.S.C. 926C. Requires the gaming commission (commission) to adopt rules: (1) permitting a law enforcement officer to carry a handgun in a licensed facility; (2) requiring a law enforcement officer who is carrying a handgun to notify an enforcement agent or the commission that the law enforcement officer is carrying a handgun; (3) requiring the licensed facility to provide the law enforcement officer with a wristband or other identifiable item that will inform the licensed facility and its agents that the law enforcement officer is carrying a handgun; and (4) implementing a reasonable method to enforce the new rules. Provides that the commission is not prohibited from adopting its own rules or policies concerning the carrying of handguns by its employees or enforcement agents.
First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy
Referred to the House
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 157: yeas 40, nays 9
Senator Leising added as coauthor
Cosponsors: Representatives Engleman, Eberhart, Goodin
House sponsor: Representative Clere
Amendment #2 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote
Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed
Placed back on second reading
Amendment #1 (Grooms) prevailed; Division of the Senate: yeas 39, nays 9
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Senator Sandlin added as coauthor
Committee report: do pass, adopted
Senator Koch added as second author
Authored by Senator Grooms
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| Introduced Senate Bill (S) | |
| Senate Bill (S) | |
| Engrossed Senate Bill (S) | |
| Engrossed Senate Bill (H) |
| Document | Format |
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| Fiscal Note: SB0291.04.ENGS.FN001 | |
| Fiscal Note: SB0291.04.ENGS.FN002 | |
| Fiscal Note: SB0291.03.ENGS.FN001 | |
| Floor Amendment: SB0291.03.ENGS.AMS002 | |
| Fiscal Note: SB0291.02.COMS.FN001 | |
| Floor Amendment: SB0291.02.COMS.AMS001 | |
| Committee Report: SB0291.01.INTR.CRS001 | |
| Fiscal Note: SB0291.01.INTR.FN001 |
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