A bill mandating 10 year minimum sentences for people who used guns while committing certain felonies appeared to die in the Texas House over the weekend. But senators kept it alive by adding the proposal on to another piece of legislation.
this legislative session, but it died in the House on Saturday after failing to move out of committee before a key deadline. Not to be deterred, senators in the State Affairs Committee resuscitated the proposal by adding the entirety of Huffman’s mandatory minimum legislation to a related House bill., as passed by the House, simply raised the penalty for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a felony from a third-degree to second-degree felony.
The new version of HB 4843 will now go back to the House, where lawmakers can either accept the swap or go to a conference committee, where a few members from each chamber will work to come up with a compromise before final legislative deadlines this weekend. During a Senate committee hearing in March for SB 23, Huffman said the bill stemmed from a surge in violent gun-related crimes across the state since 2019.
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