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House Bill 452

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Last Action to Transportation (S)
Title AN ACT relating to boating.
Bill Documents Bill
Bill Request Number 1666
Sponsor S. Riggs
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 235.285 to require, effective January 1, 2009, all operators of personal watercraft or motor boats born after January 1, 1991, to have a safe boating certificate or have an adult with a safe boating certificate with them; regulate safety of personal watercraft operated on public waterways.
Index Headings of Original Version Boats and Boating - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Safety - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Waterways and Dams - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Motor Vehicles - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Transportation - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Effective Dates, Emergency - BR 1666, safe boating regulation, effective January 1, 2009
Proposed Amendments House Floor Amendment 1
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02/04/08
  • introduced in House
02/06/08
  • to Natural Resources & Environment (H)
02/15/08
  • posted in committee
02/21/08
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
02/25/08
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
02/28/08
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 29, 2008
03/07/08
  • floor amendment (1) filed
03/13/08
  • 3rd reading, passed 70-27 with floor amendment (1)
03/14/08
  • received in Senate
03/18/08
  • to Transportation (S)

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment House Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor S. Riggs
Summary Change "born after" January 1, 1991 to "born on or after" January 1, 1991; remove requirement that persons who do not possess a safe boating certificate be accompanied by someone eighteen years of age or older; require that the accompanying boater be either in possession of a safe boating certificate or exempt from the required safe boating certificate; exempt a person born before January 1, 1991 from the requirement to possess a safe boating certificate, or be accompanied by a person that possesses the certificate, as well as the requirement that all nonresidents operating a motorboat or a personal watercraft over ten horsepower on the public waters of the Commonwealth have a safe boating certificate.
Index Headings Boats and Boating - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Safety - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Waterways and Dams - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Motor Vehicles - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Transportation - Personal watercraft, operation on public waterways, regulation of
Effective Dates, Emergency - BR 1666, safe boating regulation, effective January 1, 2009

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