Boating safety course; database listing operators who have passed course.
Summary
Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, by July 1, 2018, to create a database listing the name and date of birth and course passage date of every person who has passed an approved boating safety course prior to July 1, 2018. Any person who passes the course after that date may add his information to the database. The bill prohibits a law-enforcement officer from issuing a citation for failure to pass the required boating safety course until he has checked the database for the identity of the motorboat operator and provides that the listing of the operator in the database constitutes satisfactory evidence of having passed the required course.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2016
Committee Review
Feb 2017
Senate Passage
Feb 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Dec 7, 2016
Signed Mar 13, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Mar 13, 2017
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 360 (effective 7/1/17)
executive
Feb 17, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed House (86-Y 13-N)
legislature
Feb 6, 2017
Committee
Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
legislature
Feb 3, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
legislature
Jan 31, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB866S1
legislature
Jan 31, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 17104127D-S1
legislature
Dec 7, 2016
Committee
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
legislature
Dec 7, 2016
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101148D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Richard Stuart
RRepublican
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