PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
CPRC: Texas joins 12 other states that allow permitted concealed handguns on college campuses, copy of final bill available here :: 05/31/2015
By a 98-47 vote the Texas House and a 20-11 vote in the Senate, the Texas legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that allows concealed handgun permit holders to carry guns on college campuses. Nine states allow permitted concealed handguns on college campuses: Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin, and public universities in Pennsylvania outside of the Penn State system mandate concealed carry on campuses. And Florida, Kentucky, and North Dakota public universities let permit holders keep their guns in their cars on campuses. From the Dallas Morning News:
At the House’s urging, the measure would give public university presidents increased flexibility to establish some gun-free zones on campus. And at the Senate’s request, it would allow private schools to totally opt out of the bill’s provisions. . . .
“The bottom line is this: Senate Bill 11 makes concealed carry on Texas college campuses the law of the land, while allowing for very limited, reasonable prohibitions in unique campus locations,” the Granbury Republican said. . . .
The new legislation aims to allow those Texans to take their handguns into dorms, classrooms, cafeterias and other campus buildings. . . .
The legislation doesn’t detail specifically where schools can and can’t create exemptions. But Birdwell said his intent was for such zones to be limited to unique buildings, such as a biomedical research facility, and not to include buildings such as dorms.
“The legislative intent … is for public college campuses to be as permissive and accessible to CHL holders as possible,” he said.
A marked up copy of the final bill that came out of conference is available here. The University president can establish gun-free zones on campus, though since the Board of Regents at a school can veto those rules and since almost all the Regents at public universities are Republicans, it is a least conceivable that some of the public universities will not enact too draconian of gun-free zones. The key part of the bill is this:
“The president or officer may not establish provisions that generally prohibit or have the effect of generally prohibiting license holders from carry concealed handguns on the campus of the institution. The president or officer may amend the provisions as necessary for campus safety.”
