Bill Text: TX HB672 | 2027-2028 | 90th Legislature Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-11-09 - Filed [HB672 Detail]
Download: Texas-2027-HB672-Introduced.html
| 90R453 AMF-F | ||
| By: Moody | H.B. No. 672 | |
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| relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter B, Chapter 128, Civil | ||
| Practice and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER B. CIVIL ACTIONS AGAINST SPORT SHOOTING RANGES | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 128, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER C. LIABILITY ARISING FROM FIREARM HOLD AGREEMENTS | ||
| Sec. 128.101. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Congressionally chartered veterans service | ||
| organization" means a veterans service organization listed in 36 | ||
| U.S.C. Subtitle II. | ||
| (2) "Federal firearms licensee" means any person | ||
| licensed under 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44. | ||
| (3) "Firearm" means any device designed, made, or | ||
| adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy | ||
| generated by an explosion or burning substance or any device | ||
| readily convertible to that use. | ||
| (4) "Firearm hold agreement" means a private | ||
| transaction between a federal firearms licensee or a | ||
| congressionally chartered veterans service organization lawfully | ||
| permitted to possess firearms and an individual firearm owner in | ||
| which the licensee or organization takes physical possession of the | ||
| owner's lawfully possessed firearm at the owner's request, holds | ||
| the firearm for an agreed period of time, and returns the firearm to | ||
| the owner according to the terms of the agreement. | ||
| Sec. 128.102. IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY. (a) Subject to | ||
| Subsection (b), a person does not have a cause of action against a | ||
| federal firearms licensee or congressionally chartered veterans | ||
| service organization operating lawfully in this state for any act | ||
| or omission arising from a firearm hold agreement that results in | ||
| personal injury or death, including the return of a firearm to the | ||
| owner by the licensee or organization at the termination of the | ||
| agreement. | ||
| (b) The immunity from civil liability provided by | ||
| Subsection (a) to a congressionally chartered veterans service | ||
| organization applies only if the organization complies with | ||
| firearms storage requirements applicable to federal firearms | ||
| licensees. | ||
| (c) The immunity from civil liability provided by | ||
| Subsection (a) does not apply to a cause of action arising from the | ||
| unlawful conduct or gross negligence of the licensee or | ||
| organization. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter C, Chapter 128, Civil Practice and | ||
| Remedies Code, as added by this Act, does not apply to a cause of | ||
| action that accrued before the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2027. | ||
