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SB1596 • 2025

Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

Firearms
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Hagenbuch
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended

  7. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Additional sponsor(s) authorized

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3937

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  12. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage reported

  13. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  14. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  15. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order withdrawn. Rule 4, Section 32(c)(2)

  16. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment tabled. 1-Goodwin

  17. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3630

  18. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  19. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  20. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3631

  21. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  22. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  23. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/28/25 10:00 AM

  24. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3675

  25. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  26. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  27. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  28. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  29. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  30. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  31. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  32. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  33. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  34. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

  35. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  36. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  37. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  38. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  39. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  40. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  41. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  42. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  43. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  44. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  45. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment(s) offered. FA1 Gutierrez

  46. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment fails of adoption

  47. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  48. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  49. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  50. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  51. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  52. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  53. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  54. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  55. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  56. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  57. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  58. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  59. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  60. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to State Affairs

  61. 2025-02-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  62. 2025-02-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 1596 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 1596

AN ACT

relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 46.05(a) and (d), 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 otherwise not subject to that registration

requirement or unless the item is classified as a curio or relic by

the United States Department of Justice:

(A) an explosive weapon;
or

(B) a machine gun; [
or

[
(C) a short-barrel firearm;
]

(2) armor-piercing ammunition;

(3) a chemical dispensing device;

(4) a zip gun;

(5) a tire deflation device; or

(6) an improvised explosive device.

(d) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this

section that the actor's conduct:

(1) was incidental to dealing with a [
short-barrel

firearm or
] tire deflation device solely as an antique or curio;

(2) was incidental to dealing with armor-piercing

ammunition solely for the purpose of making the ammunition

available to an organization, agency, or institution listed in

Subsection (b); or

(3) was incidental to dealing with a tire deflation

device solely for the purpose of making the device available to an

organization, agency, or institution listed in Subsection (b).

SECTION 2. Section 46.01(10), Penal Code, is repealed.

SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1596 passed the Senate on

April 16, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 21, Nays 10.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1596 passed the House on

May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 87, Nays 52, one

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor