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2023 SESSION
HB 1958 Campgrounds; definitions, inherent risks, liability, notice required.
Introduced by: James A. "Jay" Leftwich | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Campgrounds; inherent risks; liability. Provides that a person who goes camping at a campground shall be presumed to have known the inherent risks of camping, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that a campground professional, as defined in the bill, shall not be liable for the injury to or death of a camping participant resulting from the inherent risks of camping. The bill further provides that no camping participant or camping participant's representative is authorized to maintain an action against or recover from a camping professional for injury to, loss or damage by, or death of the camping participant resulting exclusively from any of the inherent risks of camping, provided that in any action for damages against a camping professional for camping activity, the camping professional pleads the affirmative defense of assumption of the risk. The bill excludes from such immunity acts taken by a camping professional to intentionally cause personal injury or death or property damage, acts made with a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the camping participant, and instances wherein the camping professional has actual knowledge or reasonably should have known of a dangerous condition on the land or in the facilities or equipment used in the activity and does not make the danger known to the camping participant.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101881D pdf
- 01/23/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105239D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101881D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/19/23 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/20/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
- 01/23/23 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 3-N)
- 01/23/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105239D-H1
- 01/25/23 House: Read first time
- 01/26/23 House: Read second time
- 01/26/23 House: Committee substitute agreed to 23105239D-H1
- 01/26/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1958H1
- 01/27/23 House: Read third time and passed House (75-Y 23-N)
- 01/27/23 House: VOTE: Passage (75-Y 23-N)
- 01/30/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/13/23 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)