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FL S0030
Bill
Status
Failed
3/8/2024
Primary Sponsor
Environment and Natural Resources
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AI Summary
- Requires the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to include a lifetime boating safety identification card symbol on driver licenses and ID cards at no additional fee, effective October 1, 2025
- Expands the boating safety education requirement to all vessel operators (motors 10+ horsepower), removing the previous exemption for persons born before January 1, 1988, effective July 1, 2026
- Requires persons convicted of boating under the influence plus one or more additional criminal boating violations to maintain vessel insurance with minimum limits of $100,000 for bodily injury/death and $50,000 for property damage; failure to maintain insurance is a second-degree misdemeanor
- Establishes a tiered mandatory education system for boating violators: two noncriminal infractions within 24 months require a standard boating safety course, while criminal violations or three+ infractions within 36 months require both the standard course and an additional 4-hour course covering boating laws, accident prevention, and defensive operation
- Adds boating under the influence awareness and human trafficking awareness as required components of the commission-approved boating safety education course
Legislative Description
Boating Safety
Last Action
Died in Transportation
3/8/2024
Committee Referrals
Transportation12/8/2023
Full Bill Text
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