{"id":796451,"date":"2019-06-18T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=796451"},"modified":"2019-06-19T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:48:08","slug":"governor-abbott-signs-church-carry-bill-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=796451","title":{"rendered":"Governor Abbott Signs Church Carry Bill into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/06\/state-capitol-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-796453\" \/>AUSTIN &#8211; Soon churches and places of worship will have the same right as private property owners to allow guns on their premises.  Van Zandt County District 2 State Rep. Dan Flynn filed the House version and sponsored the Senate version of a bill signed by Governor Abbott.  The signing will allow churches to decide whether to allow or prohibit guns on their premises.  For the last 2 plus decades sanctuaries were forbidden from the legal carry of handguns.   The legislation becomes effective on September 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8211; Soon churches and places of worship will have the same right as private property owners to allow guns on their premises. Van Zandt County District 2 State Rep. Dan Flynn filed the House version and sponsored the Senate version of a bill signed by Governor Abbott. The signing will allow churches to decide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=796451\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Governor Abbott Signs Church Carry Bill into Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":796453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 00:52:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796454,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796451\/revisions\/796454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}