SB2284

“Archery equipment” includes long bows, recurved bows, compound bows and crossbows, plus arrows and component parts or accessories. Cities and counties generally cannot regulate its listed ownership, carrying, transfer, storage, transportation, licensing, registration or commerce matters, its discharge at a sport shooting range, or require owners to obtain the specified liability insurance. The act extends an existing framework; it does not erase every local public-safety power. Final law, sections 1–3 and 5–8; Prior municipal framework; Prior county framework.

The municipal exceptions expressly include regulation of archery discharge away from sport shooting ranges and carrying at specified public parks, governmental meetings, political events and nonfirearms-related athletic events, subject to statutory limits. Generally applicable zoning, land-use, fire and business rules remain possible, but cities cannot use that exception to effectively restrict otherwise-lawful archery manufacture, sales, purchases, transfers or displays. The lawful-sporting-event exception and protection against interpreting the statute as authority for confiscation now also include archery equipment. Final law, section 2.

The city exception allowing certain carrying rules at those listed public places no longer applies to a person licensed to carry a handgun. That change concerns this particular local-regulation exception; it does not create permission to carry any weapon anywhere or override state or federal law. Final law, 229.001(c)(2); Existing section, including state/federal-law savings clause.

County authority under 235.042 to regulate or prohibit bow-and-arrow hunting in an unincorporated subdivision now covers lots smaller than seven acres, rather than lots 10 acres or smaller. A seven-acre lot is not within that particular grant of authority. The act also removes “firearms” from the municipal fire-regulation provision allowing regulation of fireworks and firearms; it does not remove all separate municipal authority over firearm discharge. Final law, sections 4 and 9; Prior lot threshold; Prior fire-regulation provision.

The changes apply to local measures adopted before, on or after the effective date. The bill’s immediate-effect option did not take effect; official history records September 1, 2025. Changes during passage: All five posted versions have the same operative provisions; both committees reported without amendments, and the amendment index lists none. Final law, sections 10–11; History; Introduced; Senate committee; Senate-passed; House committee; Version index; Amendment index.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Owners and businesses gain protection from differing local archery rules, while cities and counties lose some flexibility to respond through local restrictions. Existing local measures must comply with the new limits. This law is not a general hunting license or assurance that a particular use is lawful; its scope is specified local-government authority. Final law.

The April 11 fiscal note anticipates no state fiscal implication and no significant local fiscal implication. It does not estimate safety outcomes, sales growth or a specific cost for reviewing local ordinances. The act makes no appropriation. Fiscal note.