HB 2038 Summary

• Amends personal flotation device requirements to include sailboards and stand-up paddleboards as watercraft requiring approved devices.

• Modifies requirements for children 12 years of age or under on watercraft to wear correctly sized wearable personal flotation devices whenever the watercraft is underway.

• Expands civil liability provisions to allow the state to recover minimum damages from persons convicted of unlawfully feeding wildlife that results in lethal removal of protected species.

• Authorizes doubling of minimum damage sums for a second offense and tripling for a third offense in wildlife violation civil actions.

• Adds investigations of fraud related to licenses, permits, tags or stamps as an authorized expenditure of the wildlife theft prevention fund.