Bill Text: CA SB1269 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Violent felonies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1269 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1269-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1269	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 600 of the Harbors and Navigation Code,
relating to vessels.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1269, as introduced, Galgiani. Watercraft.
   Existing law regulates the operation of watercraft, as defined, in
the waterways of the state. Existing law defines a "watercraft" for
purposes of those provisions to mean any boat, ship, barge, craft, or
floating thing designed for navigation in the water.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in that definition of
watercraft.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 600 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is
amended to read:
   600.  As used in this chapter:
   (a) "Watercraft" means any boat, ship, barge, craft or floating
thing designed for navigation in the  water; and 
 water. 
   (b) "Nonresident" means a person who is not a resident of this
 State   state  at the time the accident or
collision occurs or at the time a cause of action or claim for
relief arises against him, and also means a person who, at the time
the accident or collision occurs or at the time a cause of action or
claim for relief arises against him is a resident of this 
State   state  but subsequently becomes a
nonresident of this  State   state  .