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SB 58: Boating Safety

GENERAL BILL by Garcia

Boating Safety; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue original, renewal, or replacement identification cards with a lifetime boating safety identification card symbol to applicants if certain conditions are met; providing increased criminal penalties for the reckless operation of a vessel which causes serious bodily injury to another; revising the conditions that compose the offense of, and penalties for, boating under the influence (BUI); revising the definition of the term “vessel homicide” to include the killing of an unborn child by causing injury to the mother by operation of a vessel in a reckless manner under certain circumstances, etc.

Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2025
 Last Action: 1/15/2025 Senate - Referred to Criminal Justice; Transportation; Fiscal Policy
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Criminal Justice (CJ)
  2. Transportation (TR)
  3. Fiscal Policy (FP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
11/21/2024 Senate • Filed
1/15/2025 Senate • Referred to Criminal Justice; Transportation; Fiscal Policy