Reform of the archaic Texas knife laws against carry of any knife with a more than 5.5″ blade was narrowly defeated by a Democrat committee chairman, who voted for the bill, then killed it by refusing to do the administrative action he had promised.
A lot more work needs to be done on Texas's knife laws.
"Illegal knife" means a:
(A) knife with a blade over five and one-half inches;
(B) hand instrument designed to cut or stab another by being thrown;
(C) dagger, including but not limited to a dirk, stiletto, and poniard;
(D) bowie knife;
(E) sword; or
(F) spear.
All of those definitions of “illegal knife” would have been done away with in the Texas bill. It passed both houses, and only needed to be referred to a committee list to be rubber stamped as a non-controversial bill.
That is when the Democrat committee chairman killed it after voting for it, by refusing to send it to the committee.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/tx-knife-preemption-to-governor-abbott.html