Video & Transcript Research : 'firearm liability'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JHA Public Hearing - Wed Feb 25, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Detainers raise constitutional concerns and increase liability exposure for agencies that hold people
  • This measure protects emergency responders from liability during periods of evacuation.
  • liability during periods of evacuation. liability during periods of evacuation.
  • Assume the risk and<02:40:58.399> wave<02:40:58.720> liability.
  • First up, Evan Hoy and wave liability.
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs heard testimony on two immigration-enforcement bills: HB 1886 HD1 and HB 2540 HD1. HB 1886 would limit state and federal collaboration in immigration enforcement, require visible identification and restrictions on facial coverings for law enforcement officers, and create offenses for improper masking, lack of identification, and unauthorized civil immigration interrogation, arrest, or detention. HB 2540 would also limit state and federal collaboration, require law enforcement agencies to adopt and publicly post written civil immigration enforcement policies, prohibit stops or arrests based solely on immigration status, and restrict state and county participation in civil immigration enforcement in certain places. Most testimony supported both measures. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Office of the Public Defender, the ACLU of Hawaii, the Hawaii Coalition for Immigrant Rights, the Legal Clinic, and several private individuals said the bills would increase transparency, accountability, and community trust, and would help protect constitutional rights and reduce fear among immigrants and other community members. Several testifiers emphasized Hawaii’s history and the need to keep local law enforcement separate from federal immigration enforcement, while others said the bills would help people feel safer going to court, school, work, or public protests. A retired police officer also supported visible identification and uniform standards for officers, including federal agents operating in Hawaii. A few testifiers opposed the use of masked or unidentified officers and argued that local police should not be diverted from ordinary public safety duties to immigration enforcement. One ACLU witness noted that the federal government has increasingly used local and state agencies to expand immigration enforcement, and said the task-force provisions in the bills are important to prevent blurred lines between agencies. The committee did not take a final vote in the portion of the meeting provided, but it recorded very large numbers of supportive testimonies for both bills, with only a small number in opposition.
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 087 Apr 11th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • insurance a 6 unfunded liability insurance a 6 unfunded liability 736,817,25334,237,8442,579,49
  • 2665 insurance 5 unfunded liability 2665 insurance 5 unfunded liability 659,2259,225 amortization
  • insurance 12 unfunded liability insurance 12 unfunded liability 1315,54,827 1315,54,827 amortization
  • unfunded liability unfunded liability 1317,832,52,57,9714,43572 Amortization payments.
  • Liability, 51,30,128. Liability claim, 61,478,746. Liability excess policy, 78,97,831.
Keywords: 981, all
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Apr 30th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • was to limit access to firearms commonly used in crimes of that era.
  • Attacks on firearms, ammunition, or related accessories amounts to attacks on constitutional right.
  • The ability to manufacture firearms is essentially the right to keep and bear them.
  • The Texas Manufactured Firearms Act reinforces this tradition by ensuring that firearms, accessories,
  • , firearms too large to be carried and used by a single person, and any firearm with a bore diameter
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 30th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • was to limit access to firearms commonly used in crimes of that era.
  • Attacks on firearms, ammunition, or related accessories amount to attacks on civilian life.
  • The ability to manufacture firearms is essentially the right to keep and bear them.
  • Under this bill, Texans may manufacture firearms.
  • Firearms produced here in Texas create jobs for Texans, and this is what this bill would do.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 23rd, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • February 4 of 2023, during the pursuit, one of the suspects discharged a firearm at passing motorists
  • Requiring the owner to obtain liability.
  • responsibilities and ensuring proper confinement, increasing penalties for violations, and requiring liability
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • There is also liability with an aging location, and we've got to redo sidewalks, walkways, crosswalks
  • know that veterans are one of the groups in our state with the highest number of suicides, often by firearms
  • Environmental Review Compensation and Liability Act process, commonly known as Superfund, and determined
  • the remedial investigation phase of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, May 14, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Fresno police recovered more than 1,500 crime-related firearms and achieved a homicide clearance rate
  • and achieved a homicide related firearms and achieved a homicide clearance<01:04:17.359> rate
  • There's a bill I'm supporting that would actually create liability in the case of gross negligence when
  • in the case of gross create liability in the case of gross negligence<02:49:00.240> when<02:49
  • DOJ consent decrees are liability.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (05/13/2025)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • So there's not strict liability for knowing if there was something wrong. probably up here.
  • So there's not strict liability for knowing if there was something wrong. mandatory if uh the person
  • So there's not um strict liability So there's not um strict liability for<00:23:47.360> knowing
  • The thing that changes is reducing the number of years and then the strict liability.
  • then the strict liability. then the strict liability.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th 1st C.S.

Public Health Aug 13th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Firearms exams, probably at the bottom end, going to cost me about $3,000.
  • The leading cause of death of children in Texas is firearms.
  • No one is suggesting banning firearms or alcohol, of course. 0.03 THC-level hemp-derived consumables
  • The leading cause of death of children in Texas is firearms.
  • Do we ban alcohol, tobacco, or firearms? When they're sold to minors, no.
Summary: The House Committee on Public Health heard House Bill 5, a proposal to ban THC products outside the Texas Compassionate Use Program while allowing non-intoxicating CBD and CBG products under tighter regulation. Chair Van Deaver gave a lengthy background on the 2018 federal Farm Bill and Texas’s 2019 hemp law, arguing that the lack of guardrails allowed a large, unregulated THC market to develop. HB 5 would impose licensing fees, product registration, testing and inspection requirements, and restrictions intended to keep products away from children. Invited witnesses from law enforcement strongly supported the bill. Steve Dye of the Texas Police Chiefs Association and Brian Hawthorne of the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas argued that THC consumables are widely mislabeled, often far more potent than advertised, and linked to youth access, impaired driving, and organized crime. Both said regulation would be ineffective and would amount to legalization, while a ban would be easier for officers to enforce. They also emphasized support for the Texas Compassionate Use Program and said medical THC should remain available. Dr. Peter Stout of the Texas Association of Crime Lab Directors and Alice Amelot of Texas DPS testified as resource witnesses about forensic testing. They said current lab resources are already stretched thin, that quantitative testing for THC and related cannabinoids is expensive and time-consuming, and that a ban would simplify enforcement because labs could focus on presence/absence testing rather than concentration. Amelot said DPS labs are neutral on the bill but explained that mislabeled products and inaccurate certificates of analysis are common. Committee members asked about traffic safety, impairment, youth use, and the costs of enforcement and lab testing; witnesses repeatedly said the bill would reduce complexity for law enforcement but that any approach would still require more resources for labs.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) May 27th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • officer, or as those defined in Business Code 1002, which is basically partners that are limited liability
  • House Bill 3441 relates to the lengthening of liability for vaccine manufacturers that advertise a harmful
  • if folks in here know how we got to the place that we're at right now with vaccine manufacturer liability
  • This is not the time. to open up vaccine manufacturers to liability.
  • book, super quick read, really quick listen, that just helps us understand a lot more. about how liability
Bills: SB801, SB867, SB2717, SB2919, HJR7, HB4, HB14, HB27, HB42, HB46, HB100, HB111, HB112, HB121, HB126, HB146, HB186, HB223, HB229, HB322, HB367, HB500, HB521, HB640, HB705, HB783, HB1052, HB1056, HB1105, HB1106, HB1178, HB1211, HB1234, HB1306, HB1403, HB1449, HB1506, HB1661, HB1690, HB1871, HB1960, HB2017, HB2078, HB2128, HB2240, HB2243, HB2348, HB2407, HB2512, HB2820, HB2844, HB2853, HB2854, HB2885, HB3000, HB3005, HB3053, HB3057, HB3181, HB3333, HB3372, HB3425, HB3441, HB3516, HB3749, HB3783, HB3812, HB3848, HB3923, HB3963, HB4070, HB4134, HB4157, HB4158, HB4211, HB4449, HB4623, HB4638, HB4687, HB4690, HB4748, HB4749, HB4795, HB4848, HB5093, HB5115, HB5129, HB5138, HB5294, HB5616, HB5629, HB5646, HB5661, HB5672, HB5674, HB5699, HCR40, SJR5, SJR27, SJR59, SB4, SB6, SB8, SB9, SB10, SB12, SB22, SB23, SB25, SB27, SB34, SB36, SB37, SB38, SB40, SB57, SB140, SB261, SB293, SB441, SB447, SB467, SB512, SB650, SB777, SB785, SB924, SB1188, SB1281, SB1318, SB1333, SB1398, SB1448, SB1566, SB1579, SB1621, SB1723, SB1838, SB1862, SB2167, SB2405, SB2406, SB2407, SB2878, SB3059, SB3070, SB1, SB17, SB21, SB260, SB379, SB509, SB1198, SB1405, SB1506, SB1637, SB1833, SB2155, SB2308, SB2601, SB2778, HB300, HB2011, HB2525, HB5246, SJR36, SJR50, SJR63, SCR12, SCR39, SB2023, SB62, SB666, SB847, SB284, SB854, SB810, SB1505, SB583, SB507, SB1434, SB1772, SB2016, SB1122, SB731, SB397, SB508, SB1436, SB287, SB1882, SB393, SB1791, SB209, SB2429, SB1085, SB1975, SB2717, SB1262, SB636, SB2056, SB884, SB1200, SB1845, SB2458, SB801, SB3014, SB3013, SB758, SB2797, SB2076, SB2876, SB1640, SB1449, SB1181, SB1234, SB2926, SB2841, SB1528, SB1854, SB317, SB1250, SB2082, SB1237, SB2819, SB629, SB2608, SB1602, SB2009, SB867, SB640, SB1698, SB2680, SB913, SB1071, SB1086, SB1087, SB1483, SB1444, SB1553, SB1556, SB1703, SB2133, SB2297, SB2298, SB2622, SB2955, SB2334, SB1367, SB2044, SB2363, SB2565, SB1888, SB3036, SB3057, SB3043, SB3063, SB3035, SB203, SB2688, SB2522, SB2459, SB2655, SB2251, SB1884, SB2928, SB2566, SB2549, SB2553, SB2919, SB1944, SB1232, SB1798, SB2603, SB2607, SB2683, SB1319, SB3045, SB3071, HJR7, HB5115, HB3053, HB1403, HB223, HB748, HB5652, HB3395, HB180, HB1306, HB322, HB126, HB5650, HB4894, HB1629, HB5698, HB3171, HB2694, HB5664, HB4690, HB4464, HB3623, HB2520, HB2213, HB252, HB146, HB5596, HB3619, HB5320, HB5651, HB5670, HB5665, HB5437, HB5679, HB5699, HB5661, HB5662, HB5654, HB5672, HB5656, HB3812, HB3057, HB2035, HB721, HB346, HB2512, HB5695, HB5694, HB5674, HB3185, HB2348, HB1871, HB1135, HB101, HB5666, HB5677, HB5682, HB5658, HB4144, HB3642, HB3815, HB2686, HB2012, HB1960, HB227, HB654, HB1690, HB2128, HB4158, HB4630, HB1523, HB2078, HB1973, HB3333, HB3697, HB3546, HB3225, HB3181, HB2820, HB1506, HB1234, HB640, HB521, HB229, HB186, HB119, HB4795, HB4466, HB3749, HB1106, HB4, HB4170, HB3909, HB4081, HB4145, HB4157, HB4285, HB4463, HB4995, HB5138, HB5624, HB1449, HB2598, HB3629, HB4361, HB824, HB1868, HB4848, HB2243, HB40, HB117, HB3686, HB500, HB3793, HB112, HB104, HB1056, HB42, HB3000, HB100, HB2240, HB718, HB27, HB4904, HB4202, HB2853, HB5129, HB5093, HB4765, HB4748, HB4559, HB4350, HB4214, HB3388, HB3112, HB5196, HB4211, HB3516, HB3092, HB4233, HB4687, HB705, HB1094, HB2037, HB3005, HB3848, HB1105, HB121, HB3372, HB367, HB783, HB3336, HB3441, HB4449, HB5616, HB2407, HB2854, HB3425, HB5294, HB1178, HB4623, HB14, HB3963, HB1211, HB5646, HB5629, HB3783, HB4236, HB46, HB4638, HB1052, HB4070, HB5509, HB5435, HB4134, HB3923, HB3520, HB3320, HB2517, HB2488, HB5663, HB2731, HB3073, HB2655, HB2399, HB541, HB4099, HB111, HB1532, HB3483, HB2963, HB4580, HB3748, HB713, HB632, HB426, HB4730, HB127, HB5690, HB5689, HB5655, HB3385, HB2757, HB4359, HB5381, HB20, HB123, HB549, HB5606, HB2217, HB2594, HB796, HB150, HB1057, HCR141, HCR40, HCR59, HCR76, HCR81, HCR46, HCR111, HCR83, HCR84, HJR7, HB4, HB14, HB27, HB42, HB46, HB100, HB126, HB150, HB322, HB367, HB500, HB640, HB705, HB783, HB1105, HB1178, HB1211, HB1234, HB1506, HB1690, HB1871, HB2078, HB2128, HB2240, HB2243, HB2407, HB2512, HB2853, HB2854, HB3000, HB3057, HB3181, HB3372, HB3425, HB3441, HB3749, HB3783, HB3812, HB3923, HB3963, HB4070, HB4134, HB4157, HB4211, HB4449, HB4623, HB4638, HB4687, HB4748, HB4795, HB5093, HB5129, HB5616, HB5629, HB5699, HB229, HB521, HB1056, HB1106, HB5138, SR583, SCR52, HB223, HB229, HB521, HB1056, HB1106, HB1403, HB3053, HB5115, HB5138
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Jun 9th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • victims on base and providing military commanders with the ability to limit contact and access to firearms
  • And I appreciate the idea that, okay, liability is established, and how do we make it that we're paying
  • And so Senate Bill 747 will do that by importing the existing federal standards for liability.
  • We think this is a very narrow issue with respect to local government liability.
  • You can sue someone today; we're not changing the underlying liability.
Summary: The committee heard several bills focused on domestic violence protections, pay equity enforcement, Jewish demographic data collection, court transparency, auto glass insurance practices, pet policy disclosure for renters, and civil rights accountability for federal officers. SB 99 would require courts and law enforcement to better recognize military protective orders in domestic violence cases; supporters from the Department of Defense and military organizations said it would close jurisdictional gaps for military families, and the bill passed to Public Safety. SB 1237 would increase penalties for repeat noncompliance with California pay data reporting laws; supporters said stronger enforcement is needed to address persistent wage gaps, and the bill passed to Appropriations. SB 1387 would allow Jewish identity to be reported as an ethnic category in state demographic data; supporters said better data would improve policy and anti-discrimination efforts, while opponents argued the bill was unnecessary or divisive, and it passed to Privacy. SB 932 would require assignees filing civil actions to identify the original party in the case caption; supporters framed it as a transparency measure, and it passed to Judiciary/Appropriations on call. The committee also took up SB 98, which would regulate auto glass insurance claims by restricting assignment of benefits, requiring clearer estimates and invoices, and limiting inducements to consumers. The sponsor and NICB said the bill would curb fraud and unsafe repairs, while independent glass shops and industry groups argued it could reduce consumer choice and favor insurer-aligned networks; the bill passed to Appropriations. SB 1296 would require landlords to disclose pet policies before collecting application fees and provide refunds if nondisclosure materially affected an applicant’s decision; supporters said it would save renters time and money, while rental housing representatives objected to a provision limiting eviction based solely on failure to sign a pet addendum. The bill passed to Appropriations. Finally, SB 747, the No Kings Act, would create a California cause of action allowing people to sue federal officers for constitutional violations using standards similar to Section 1983. Senator Wiener and a witness who said he was unlawfully detained by Border Patrol argued the bill is needed because federal officers currently lack comparable accountability after the Supreme Court narrowed Bivens remedies. Law enforcement groups opposed the bill, warning that the qualified immunity language is unclear, could create a separate California standard, and might expose officers and governments to retroactive litigation; members discussed possible amendments on qualified immunity and retroactivity, and the bill was moved forward with an urgency amendment while negotiations continued.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Penalty for misconduct of public officer or employee enhanced 3/11/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • shares concerns around some of the language in House File 3822 regarding the expansion of criminal liabilities
  • misusing a city-issued credit card or looking up a woman at their gym would bar them from having a firearm
  • half of the cases charged involve some of their members and they would lose the ability to carry firearms
  • misusing a city-issued credit card or looking up a woman at their gym would bar them from having a firearm
  • half of the cases charged involve some of their members and they would lose the ability to carry firearms
Keywords: 1183, house
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 20th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 687 by Hughes, relating to liability for land surveying services in or connection with certain construction
  • It does, because the more law-abiding citizens that are carrying firearms, the safer we are as a state
  • So more law-abiding citizens that are traveling through Texas who have firearms protecting themselves
  • And you can also carry a firearm to protect against those people that change?
  • , a visitor from another state, and heard a visitor from this state who is not allowed to carry a firearm
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Juvenile Justice Apr 7th, 2025

S/C on Juvenile Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • But when you get into court and you can say look, we adopted best practices, that reduces your liability
  • Bishop: Probation officer and I carried a firearm. I had arrest powers but I was...
  • Bishop: Examples of where my training would have probably suggested that I pull a firearm on a young
  • Representative Lauterbach: Well, we only pull firearms in necessary force.
  • I've been pepper sprayed a couple times, handcuffed kids, carried a firearm, all of that.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, May 22, 2026 - PM

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • A corporation can't get out of liability by voluntarily dissolving.
  • And I industry, firearms, all of that.
  • ,<01:31:17.080> and registered agents to liability, and registered agents to liability, and
  • <01:59:00.360> Um, you know, liability kind of issues.
  • Um, you know, liability kind of issues.
Keywords: 916, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/24/26

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • The firearms disclosure in our policies has become a great conversation.
  • > our<01:48:36.880> policies The firearms disclosure in our policies The firearms disclosure
  • pose to children and we firearms pose to children and we acknowledge<01:48:45.040> this<01:48
  • Our state's firearm this session.
  • To give transparency to parents by putting the presence of firearms in our policies.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence May 13th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • protective orders after interested parties reported that variations in the paperwork led to delays in firearm
  • What this would do is if they have access to the technology, they also take on liability.