Video & Transcript Research : 'governmental immunity'
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- However, courts have clarified that governmental entities must be made parties in such lawsuits, and
- doing so waives their immunity.
- Senate Bill 2215 resolves the ambiguity by explicitly waiving sovereign immunity for municipalities in
- Now, do you have to waive governmental immunity to get a declaratory action for a mandamus?
- Now they claim they're immune from suit every time.
Keywords:
zoning, municipality, municipal immunity, governmental immunity, local government, Chapter 211, Texas Local Government Code, land use, declaratory relief, injunctive relief, mandamus, attorney's fees, court costs, property rights, home rule city, code enforcement, planning and zoning, land development, municipal ordinance, historic landmark
WY
Keywords:
foreign censorship, digital innovation, constitutional rights, Wyoming GRANITE Act, extraterritorial laws, civil actions, speech protection, legal jurisdiction, joint liability, money laundering, illegal investment, financial institutions, criminal activity, Wyoming legislation, First Amendment, free speech, lawsuits, immunity, public participation, strategic lawsuits
WY
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- to how we would waive it in a governmental immunities case or something else like, you know, if the
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else <00:38:01.599>like not contain the concept of immunity. not contain the concept of immunity. - A judge should not be granting immunity when the immunity does not apply.
Keywords:
foreign censorship, digital innovation, constitutional rights, Wyoming GRANITE Act, extraterritorial laws, civil actions, speech protection, legal jurisdiction, joint liability, money laundering, illegal investment, financial institutions, criminal activity, Wyoming legislation, First Amendment, free speech, lawsuits, immunity, public participation, strategic lawsuits
WY
Keywords:
foreign censorship, digital innovation, constitutional rights, Wyoming GRANITE Act, extraterritorial laws, civil actions, speech protection, legal jurisdiction, joint liability, money laundering, illegal investment, financial institutions, criminal activity, Wyoming legislation, First Amendment, free speech, lawsuits, immunity, public participation, strategic lawsuits
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It waives governmental immunity, costing taxpayers even more in legal fees and draining local budgets
Keywords:
biological sex, government information, definitions, sex-based distinctions, public health, flags, display, state law, municipalities, government buildings, drug enforcement, local control, home rule, municipal charter, county policy, ordinance preemption, state preemption, attorney general enforcement, civil penalties, mandamus
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Someone barges in, you shoot them, you're protected under current law with civil immunity.
- brandish your weapon or threaten force, and they're injured while fleeing, you may not have the same immunity
- This bill fixes that by extending civil immunity to those who threaten to use deadly force, not just
Keywords:
digital rights, replication, Voice likeness, visual likeness, private causes of action, fee structure, online service providers, postmortem rights, self-defense, stand your ground, castle doctrine, use of force, deadly force, civil immunity, civil liability, tort claims, attorney fees, court costs, lost income, Chapter 9 Penal Code
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 18, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
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and three and they want them immunized and three and they want them immunized - We can already administer immunizations.
- We can already administer immunizations.
- We can already administer immunizations.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 18, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, so the [clears throat] I understand the one about the governmental entities.
- Um, changing governmental entity to state agency.
- So you just have to think, is there any governmental entity that is not just a state agency?
- Representative Clouston: Is there any governmental entity that is not just a state agency?
- Representative Clouston: Is there any governmental entity that is not just a state agency?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Would you be — would you welcome — that allowed it to go to other governmental entities for the purposes
- wanted to make sure. sure that we don't put something that makes us so confidential that other governmental
- deadly force, giving homeowners a wider range of options while still maintaining. civil immunity.
- So, just that, um, it's, uh, you have to have had an acquittal before you can get the immunity, I mean
- They wouldn't have immunity, no. Okay. Only a threat. Our bill is all about only the threat.
TX
TX
TX
Bills:
SB 250, SB 375, SB 536, SB 845, SB 1633, SB 1944, SB 1957, SB 2081, SB 2137, SB 2262, SB 2299, SB 2419, SB 2452, SB 2522, SB 2549, SB 2594, SB 2605, SB 2631, SB 2639, SB 2675, SB 3029, SJR 60, HB 22, HB 1392, HB 2525
Keywords:
municipal annexation, railroad, adjacent areas, local government, property rights, healthcare provider, Harris County Hospital District, hospital funding, healthcare services, public health program, home loans, nurses, veterans, public servants, Texas Heroes program, low-interest loans, social workers, housing assistance, housing tax credits, disaster recovery
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It waives governmental immunity, costing taxpayers even more in legal fees and draining local budgets
Keywords:
biological sex, government information, definitions, sex-based distinctions, public health, flags, display, state law, municipalities, government buildings, drug enforcement, local control, home rule, municipal charter, county policy, ordinance preemption, state preemption, attorney general enforcement, civil penalties, mandamus
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- the government's speech doctrine by ensuring that in policy and in practice, only. ...official governmental
- This bill keeps the focus of governmental entities on a message of unity, signaling that our government
- wording of the bill, but then at the very bottom in Section 2.0 Article 5.1.252, it states that a governmental
Keywords:
HB 229, Texas, political subdivision, local government, county dues, county association, state association of counties, lobbying, lobbyist, public funds, taxpayer lawsuit, injunctive relief, attorney's fees, Government Code Chapter 556, Local Government Code Section 89.002, legislative advocacy, municipal government, county government, city government, special district
WY
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Scope of governmental immunity as it relates to our public school system and our charter schools.
- and governmental immunity.
- The purpose of my bill is to remove governmental immunity from school districts and their employees for
- It's because they don't enjoy governmental immunity. They're currently, you're able to sue them?
- That is not the purpose of governmental immunity.
Bills:
HB4011, HB2680, HB4325, HB4327, HB4944, HB1761, HB4688, HB3453, HB40, HB1707, HB4749, HB2322, HB3647, HB4139, HB4081, HB2203, HB2100, HB4170, HB3104, HB4623, HB40
Keywords:
partition, heirs' property, real estate, co-ownership, family property, non-heir cotenant, right of first refusal, pilot services, liability limitation, maritime commerce, Matagorda Bay, Lavaca Bay, transportation code, maritime industry, civil liability, barratry, penalties, legal actions, damages, wrongful death
TX
Bills:
HB4011, HB2680, HB4325, HB4327, HB4944, HB1761, HB4688, HB3453, HB40, HB1707, HB4749, HB2322, HB3647, HB4139, HB4081, HB2203, HB2100, HB4170, HB3104, HB4623, HB40
Keywords:
partition, heirs' property, real estate, co-ownership, family property, non-heir cotenant, right of first refusal, pilot services, liability limitation, maritime commerce, Matagorda Bay, Lavaca Bay, transportation code, maritime industry, civil liability, barratry, penalties, legal actions, damages, wrongful death
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Um But it's not a Public Uh Uh, it's not a public conveyance or public service that's like governmental
Bills:
HB 214
Keywords:
Texas Women's Privacy Act, HB 214, sex-segregated facilities, bathroom bill, restroom access, locker room, changing room, shower room, single-sex spaces, gender identity, transgender, biological sex, women's privacy, public facilities, state agency, political subdivision, correctional facility, prison housing, jail housing, family violence shelter
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Related to the wearing of masks during riots, it also calls for the loss of immunity by municipalities
Bills:
HB3765, HB4324, HB3678, HB4170, HB3495, HB3040, HB3062, HB4140, HB4106, HB4109, HB4104, HB3581
Keywords:
property rights, forfeiture, noncitizen, land ownership, felony, public safety, criminal procedure, sentence modification, resentencing, judicial review, postconviction relief, district attorney, prosecutor, victim rights, victim notification, Department of Corrections, inmate rehabilitation, sentencing reform, life without parole, nonviolent offense
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 1638 expands the definition in the Governmental Tort Claims Act and the act political subdivision
- consent order to hopefully save court time as well as to make sure there is compliance at those governmental
Bills:
HB1082, HB1638, HB3040, HB3269, HB3278, HB3298, HB3587, HB3996, HB4113, HB4140, HB4226, HB4236, HB4301, HB4324, HB4339, HB4342, HB4352, SB1082
Keywords:
child custody, joint custody, best interest of the child, guardian ad litem, domestic violence, substance abuse, Governmental Tort Claims Act, definitions, torts, political subdivisions, governmental immunity, medical providers, sex offenders, safety zones, minors protection, loitering restrictions, criminal penalties, arrest warrant, criminal procedure, telephonic communication