Bill Text: MO HB1452 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any person younger than 14 years of age to wear an approved personal flotation device when on a watercraft on Missouri waters unless the person is in a fully enclosed part of the watercraft

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-11 - HCS Voted Do Not Pass (H) [HB1452 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2012-HB1452-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1452

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DENISON (Sponsor), PACE, McDONALD, McCREERY AND WALTON GRAY (Co-sponsors).

5429L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 306.220, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to water safety, with an existing penalty provision.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 306.220, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 306.220, to read as follows:

            306.220. Each person under the age of [seven] fourteen who is on board any watercraft which is on the waters of this state shall wear a personal flotation device which is approved by the United States Coast Guard. Any person who allows a person under the age of [seven] fourteen to be on board any watercraft which is on the waters of this state without wearing a personal flotation device shall be deemed guilty of a class C misdemeanor. This section does not apply when the person under the age of [seven] fourteen is in a part of a watercraft which is fully enclosed, where such enclosure will prevent such person from falling out of or being thrown from the watercraft.

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