Amendment H-8366 to SF 2263
Relating to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons, and including effective date provisions
Adopted · April 16, 2026
Filed April 15, 2026 in the House by
In plain words
AI summary This amendment adds correctional facilities and their parking lots to the list of places where people may keep legal weapons in locked vehicles. It also changes the term "weapons free zone" to "enhanced weapons penalty zone" and increases the fine for certain weapon-related offenses committed in those areas to twice the maximum amount.1
What it changes
- Page 1, line 17, after “guard” by inserting “or the department of corrections, or a parking lot at a jail, prison, or correctional facility”
- By striking page 1, line 31, through page 2, line 18, and inserting: “DIVISION ___ ENHANCED WEAPON PENALTY ZONES Sec. ___. Section 724.4A, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows: 724.4A Weapons free zones —— enhanced penalties Enhanced weapons penalty zones .
- As used in this section , “weapons free zone” “enhanced weapons penalty zone” means the area in or on, or within one thousand feet of, the real property comprising a public or private elementary or secondary school, or in or on the real property comprising a public park. A weapons free zone An enhanced weapons penalty zone shall not include that portion of a public park designated as a hunting area under section 461A.42 .
- Notwithstanding sections 902.9 and 903.1 , a person who commits a public offense involving a firearm or offensive weapon, within a weapons free zone an enhanced weapons penalty zone , in violation of this or any other chapter shall be subject to a fine of twice the maximum amount which that may otherwise be imposed for the public offense.”
- By renumbering as necessary.