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LD1137 • 2025

An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport Shooting Ranges

An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport Shooting Ranges

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Sponsor
Senator Harold Stewart
Last action
2025-05-06
Official status
Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED . Sent down for concurrence
Effective date
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An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport Shooting Ranges

An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport Shooting Ranges Sponsor: Senator Harold Stewart Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport Shooting Ranges Sponsor: Senator Harold Stewart Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-06 House

    Reports READ . On motion of Representative KUHN of Falmouth, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. ( DEAD )

  2. 2025-04-30 Senate

    Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED . Sent down for concurrence

  3. 2025-04-29 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

  4. 2025-04-22 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-04-22 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-03-18 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport Shooting Ranges
Sponsor:
Senator Harold Stewart
Reference committee:
Judiciary
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1137
S.P. 467 In Senate, March 18, 2025
An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport
Shooting Ranges
Reference to the Committee on Judiciary suggested and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator STEWART of Aroostook.
Cosponsored by Representative PERKINS of Dover-Foxcroft and
Senators: BRADSTREET of Kennebec, TIMBERLAKE of Androscoggin, Representatives:
ARDELL of Monticello, DRINKWATER of Milford.

Page 1 - 132LR1909(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 14 MRSA §159-A, sub-§1, ¶B, as amended by PL 2015, c. 20, §1, is further
3 amended to read:
4 B. "Recreational or harvesting activities" means recreational activities conducted out-
5 of-doors, including, but not limited to, hunting, fishing, trapping, sport shooting,
6 camping, environmental education and research, hiking, rock climbing, ice climbing,
7 bouldering, rappelling, recreational caving, sight-seeing, operating snow-traveling and
8 all-terrain vehicles, skiing, hang-gliding, noncommercial aviation activities, dog
9 sledding, equine activities, boating, sailing, canoeing, rafting, biking, picnicking,
10 swimming or activities involving the harvesting or gathering of forest, field or marine
11 products. It includes entry of, volunteer maintenance and improvement of, use of and
12 passage over premises in order to pursue these activities. "Recreational or harvesting
13 activities" does not include commercial agricultural or timber harvesting.
14Sec. 2. 14 MRSA §159-A, sub-§1, ¶D is enacted to read:
15 D. "Sport shooting" means engaging in archery, skeet and trap shooting or other
16 similar shooting sports and the shooting of rifles, shotguns and pistols.
17SUMMARY
18 This bill specifies that the owner, lessee, manager, holder of an easement or occupant
19 of land who gives permission to another to engage in sport shooting on that owner's, lessee's
20 manager's, holder's or occupant's land is entitled to limited liability for injury to that other
21 person. Sport shooting is defined as engaging in archery, skeet and trap shooting or other
22 similar shooting sports and the shooting of rifles, shotguns and pistols.
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