Texas Campus Carry Carve-Out?

By Robert Farago

TTAG reader DH writes:

When SB11 came to the floor last night at 9:30 pm, with over a hundred pre-filed amendments, I thought it was DOA. I stopped watching the clown circus at 10pm and went to bed as the Dems and a few particular Repubs ran the clock out. So to be honest I haven’t scrubbed the amendments carefully. But what we know is this: the Texas legislature passed a watered-down campus carry bill with a host of amendments on second reading with ten minutes to spare . . .

It had to get to second reading by midnight; that was the deadline for Senate bills to be voted on in the House before end of session. No one is happy with the deal that was cut.

In short, SB11 allows universities to carve out “gun free zones,” excludes medical schools and requires private universities to comply. It basically emasculates the bill. Everyone won, but everyone lost. So on to the third reading and final passage in the House.

There’s good news and bad news.

Campus Carry still has to go to final House passage. There’s an opportunity to amend. But there’s also a lot of other business that needs to …read more

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