The November election once again delivered Texas Republicans full control of the state, but as the next state legislative session looms they seem to be spending a lot of time bickering with each other like they didn’t get the present they wanted under the Christmas tree.
The November election once again delivered Texas Republicans full control of the state, but as the next state legislative session looms they seem to be spending a lot of time bickering with each other like they didn’t get the present they wanted under the Christmas tree.
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers will hold a press conference on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at the Texas Capitol to discuss their support of clemency or a.
Hefner bill for armed school security immunity passes committee
Hefner bill for armed school security immunity passes committee By Jeff Awtrey | April 1, 2021 at 11:37 AM CDT - Updated April 1 at 11:37 AM
AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - A bill which would provide immunity from liability for school security personnel in case of a safety issue authored by an East Texas state representative has passed through committee.
Rep. Cole Hefner (R-Mount Pleasant) authored 1788. It concerns immunity from liability of public and private schools and security personnel employed by those schools for certain actions of security personnel. It gives immunity to any school in Texas, as well as the security personnel in the school districts, from damages that occur when “reasonable action (is) taken by the security personnel to maintain the safety of the school campus, including action relating to possession or use of a firearm.”
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In a startling example of possible political cronyism, Rep. Jeff Leach (R-Allen) is introducing a bill that will protect truck drivers from litigation when they are involved in accidents. Leach’s day job? Protecting truck drivers from litigation when they are involved in accidents.
House Bill 19 is a complicated set of new legal parameters for civil suits involving trucking accidents. Briefly and in part, it makes evidence of a defendant’s failure to comply with standards and regulations inadmissible in court unless that failure is directly related to the incident under litigation.
In addition, previous records of failure to comply with regulations not related to the incident are also inadmissible, and lawyers wanting proof of such failures must submit a court order that cannot explore more than two years of history. This limits plaintiffs’ ability to establish a chain of general negligence, which can sway juries into believing the trucking company has a