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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session
HB1608Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct, civil liability.
Direction
Firearmsindustry liabilityAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Creates new civil causes of action and public nuisance liability for firearm industry members who fail to implement reasonable controls or contribute to public nuisances through their sales, manufacturing, or marketing, making lawsuits against the industry easier and more likely to succeed.
A firearm industry member, by conduct unlawful in itself or unreasonable under all the circumstances, may not knowingly or recklessly create, maintain, or contribute to a public nuisance through the sale, manufacturing, importing, or marketing of a firearm-related product.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill enacts new standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and creates civil liability for public nuisances arising from their sale, manufacture, distribution, or marketing of firearms and accessories (including unfinished frames/receivers), allowing the Attorney General, local attorneys, and injured persons to seek injunctions, damages, abatement, and attorney fees. This expands the legal exposure of the industry and imposes new obligations to implement 'reasonable controls' to prevent unlawful access or use, which restricts the firearms topic under industry-liability.
Related bills
HB919Retail Sales and Use Tax; impose firearm and ammunition tax.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Committee
SB763Retail Sales and Use Tax; definitions, imposes firearm and ammunition tax.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Passed one chamber
HB21Firearm industry members; creates standards of responsible conduct, civil liability.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Law
SB27Firearm industry members; creates standards of responsible conduct, civil liability.↓Restricts gun access↓Restricts gun access Law
Hearings and calendar
2025-01-17 08:00 · Hearing · House Public Safety Committee Hearing House Committee Room A - 008
2025-02-10 08:00 · Hearing · Senate Courts of Justice Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2025-02-12 09:00 · Hearing · Senate Finance and Appropriations Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
Votes
Date
Chamber
Motion
Yea-Nay
2025-01-17
H
Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 10-N)
12-10
Passed
2025-01-23
H
Read third time and passed House (49-Y 47-N)
49-47
Passed
2025-02-10
S
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
9-6
Passed
2025-02-12
S
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
10-5
Passed
2025-02-13
S
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)