Introducer(s):
Environment Committee

Title: AN ACT CONCERNING BOATING SAFETY.

Statement of Purpose: To expand the scope of and streamline abandoned vessel statutes, to specify hearing and appeal procedures regarding abandoned vessels, to amend boating statutes to incorporate by reference federal safety, navigational, lighting and equipment requirements, to specify procedures to be followed in cases of boating collisions and accidents, to hold a person in control of a boat or personal watercraft responsible for permitting a person under sixteen years of age to operate a boat or personal watercraft without a safe boating certificate or certificate of personal watercraft operation, to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to penalize persons teaching unapproved boating courses, to define the term "boat livery" and place certain restrictions on persons who rent and persons who operate rental boats and to update state law to coincide with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements regarding safety controls and warning devices on approaches to dams on the Housatonic River.

Bill History:

02/15/07 REFERRED TO JOINT COMMITTEE ON Environment Committee
03/02/07 PUBLIC HEARING 03/09
03/23/07 FILED WITH LEGISLATIVE COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE
03/23/07 JOINT FAVORABLE SUBSTITUTE
04/02/07 REFERRED TO OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS 04/10/07-10:00 AM
04/10/07 REPORTED OUT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE
04/11/07 FAVORABLE REPORT, TABLED FOR THE CALENDAR, HOUSE
04/11/07 HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 376
04/11/07 FILE NUMBER 464
04/17/07 REFERRED BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ON Judiciary Committee