MS HB1025

Establishes the "Recreation Safety Act" to provide legal protections for participants and providers in sports and recreational activities by creating an assumption of risk doctrine for inherent risks.

Participants in covered recreational activities (baseball, football, soccer, horseback riding, water sports, hunting, fishing, etc.) assume all inherent risks and are legally responsible for resulting damage or injury, regardless of age.

Providers of recreational activities are not required to eliminate, alter, or control inherent risks within the activity, though liability for non-inherent negligence is preserved.

Creates exceptions allowing liability claims against providers for faulty equipment, dangerous latent conditions on property, willful or wanton disregard for safety, intentional injury, or failure to properly match participants' abilities with animals/activities.

Takes effect July 1, 2014, and incorporates existing equine activity liability statutes (MS Code 95-11-3 and 95-11-5) with expanded definitions of equine activities.