---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the carrying, storage, or possession of a firearm or firearm ammunition by certain persons on certain residential or commercial property."
description: "Relating to the carrying, storage, or possession of a firearm or firearm ammunition by certain persons on certain residential or commercial property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 302"
citation: "Texas HB 302 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property Interests--Landlord & Tenant (I0610)", "Property Interests--Property Owners Association (I0618)", "Weapons (I0887)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burns", "Guillen", "Hughes", "King, Phil", "Nevárez", "Paul"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 51
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-11-12"
last_action: "2019-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5b62ee3-ccb8-4c19-b2ba-22c798ad51b8"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00300_HB00399/HB 302.xml"
source_hash: "2ff4584923dd934169e82f10f8fa987ea5606ab4882381abe9c7453eca4e919a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---

# Texas HB 302 (86) — Relating to the carrying, storage, or possession of a firearm or firearm ammunition by certain persons on certain residential or commercial property.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB00302I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **101–44** (pass) · lower
- passage — **25–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burns — primary (person)
- Guillen — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- King, Phil — primary (person)
- Nevárez — primary (person)
- Paul — primary (person)
- Allison — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson, Charles "Doc" — cosponsor (person)
- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
- Biedermann — cosponsor (person)
- Bohac — cosponsor (person)
- Bonnen, Greg — cosponsor (person)
- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
- Burrows — cosponsor (person)
- Button — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
- Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
- Darby — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Flynn — cosponsor (person)
- Frank — cosponsor (person)
- Frullo — cosponsor (person)
- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
- Holland — cosponsor (person)
- Kacal — cosponsor (person)
- Klick — cosponsor (person)
- Krause — cosponsor (person)
- Kuempel — cosponsor (person)
- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
- Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Larson — cosponsor (person)
- Leman — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Murr — cosponsor (person)
- Noble — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
- Paddie — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Phelan — cosponsor (person)
- Raney — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Shine — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Smithee — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Stickland — cosponsor (person)
- Stucky — cosponsor (person)
- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)
- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Zedler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-19** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-02-27** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-02-27** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-13** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-03-13** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-03-18** Committee report distributed
- **2019-03-18** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-03-21** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-08** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-04-10** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-10** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-10** Statement of Leg. Intent Recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-10** Passed to engrossment as amended
- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-11** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-11** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-04-15** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-15** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-25** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-25** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-04-25** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-29** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-29** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-29** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-01** Placed on intent calendar
- **2019-05-02** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2019-05-02** Record vote
- **2019-05-02** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-02** Record vote
- **2019-05-02** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-02** Record vote
- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Record vote
- **2019-05-02** Senate passage reported
- **2019-05-03** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-06** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-06** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-06** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5b62ee3-ccb8-4c19-b2ba-22c798ad51b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).