By: Hughes, Hall S.B. No. 1736     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the liability of a person who allows handguns to be   carried on property owned, controlled, or managed by the person.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is   amended by adding Chapter 95A to read as follows:   CHAPTER 95A.  ACTIONS INVOLVING THE CARRYING OF HANDGUNS ON   PROPERTY          Sec. 95A.001.  EVIDENCE OF FAILURE TO FORBID HANDGUNS.  The   fact that a card, sign, or other document described by Section   30.06(c)(3) or 30.07(c)(3), Penal Code, is not posted on the   property of a business or any other evidence that a person failed to   exercise the person's option to forbid the carrying of a handgun by   a license holder on the property:                (1)  is not admissible as evidence in a trial on the   merits in an action:                      (A)  against a person, including a business or   other entity, who owns, controls, or manages the property; and                      (B)  in which the cause of action arises from an   injury sustained on the property; and                (2)  does not support a cause of action described by   Subdivision (1) against a person described by Subdivision (1).          SECTION 2.  Chapter 95A, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,   as added by this Act, does not apply to a cause of action that   accrued before the effective date of this Act.  A cause of action   that accrued before the effective date of this Act is governed by   the law applicable to the cause of action immediately before that   date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.