HB1627: Boating safety education; must complete to operate motorboat or personal watercraft, civil penalty.
Chief Patron
Del.
Kathy Byron (R-22)
Kathy Byron
(R-22)
Lynchburg, VA
Served: 1998–
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Status
03/20/2007: signed by governor
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- 09/27/2006 Committee
- 09/27/2006 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 072503256
- 09/27/2006 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/15/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB1627)
- 01/25/2007 Committee substitute printed 072571256-H1
- 01/25/2007 Read first time
- 01/26/2007 Read second time
- 01/26/2007 Committee substitute agreed to 072571256-H1
- 01/26/2007 Pending question ordered
- 01/26/2007 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1627H1
- 01/29/2007 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 8-N)
- 01/29/2007 VOTE: PASSAGE (90-Y 8-N) (see vote tally)
- 01/29/2007 Communicated to Senate
- 01/30/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/2007 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/07/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB1627H1)
- 02/13/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/14/2007 Read third time
- 02/14/2007 Reading of amendments waived
- 02/14/2007 Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/14/2007 Passed by for the day
- 02/15/2007 Read third time
- 02/15/2007 Passed by for the day
- 02/16/2007 Read third time
- 02/16/2007 Passed by for the day
- 02/19/2007 Passed by for the day
- 02/20/2007 Read third time
- 02/20/2007 Reading of amendment waived
- 02/20/2007 Amendment by Senator Newman agreed to
- 02/20/2007 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/20/2007 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/21/2007 Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/2007 Senate amendments agreed to by House (90-Y 8-N)
- 02/22/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (90-Y 8-N) (see vote tally)
- 03/08/2007 Enrolled
- 03/08/2007 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1627ER)
- 03/08/2007 Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/2007 Signed by President
- 03/14/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB1627ER)
- 03/20/2007 G Approved by Governor-Chapter 615 (effective 7/1/07)
- 04/05/2007 G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615)
Summary
Mandatory boating safety education; civil penalty.
Makes it $250 civil penalty for anyone to operate a motorboat without having
successfully completed an approved boating safety education course. The
education requirement is phased-in so that by July 1, 2016, all motorboat
operators will have been required to complete and pass the course or an
equivalency exam. The Board is directed to develop and administer the mandatory
boating safety education program through the promulgation of regulations,
taking into account comments from the public. There are a number of ways a
person can comply with the law other than successfully completing an approved
course, such as passing an equivalency examination, possessing a valid license
issued to maritime personnel, etc. View Full Text »
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