By: Springer, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Perry)	H.B. No. 1819
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
	May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the criminal consequences of engaging in certain
	conduct with respect to a firearm silencer.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 46.05(a) and (e), Penal Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A person commits an offense if the person intentionally
	or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or
	sells:
	(1)  any of the following items, unless the item is
	registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer
	Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
	Explosives or classified as a curio or relic by the United States
	Department of Justice:
	(A)  an explosive weapon;
	(B)  a machine gun; or
	(C)  a short-barrel firearm; [or
	[(D)  a firearm silencer;]
	(2)  knuckles;
	(3)  armor-piercing ammunition;
	(4)  a chemical dispensing device;
	(5)  a zip gun; [or]
	(6)  a tire deflation device; or
	(7)  a firearm silencer, unless the firearm silencer is
	classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of
	Justice or the actor otherwise possesses, manufactures,
	transports, repairs, or sells the firearm silencer in compliance
	with federal law.
	(e)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (3), (4), [or] (5),
	or (7) is a felony of the third degree.  An offense under Subsection
	(a)(6) is a state jail felony.  An offense under Subsection (a)(2)
	is a Class A misdemeanor.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
	purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
	before that date.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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