Bill Text: NH HB203 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to coast guard approved personal flotation devices while on New Hampshire state waters.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - Public Hearing: 01/15/2025 11:30 am Legislative Office Building 305 [HB203 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB203-Introduced.html

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HB 203  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0249

06/09

 

HOUSE BILL 203

 

AN ACT relative to coast guard approved personal flotation devices while on New Hampshire state waters.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. J. MacDonald, Carr. 6; Rep. Crawford, Carr. 3; Rep. Darby, Hills. 11; Rep. Rung, Hills. 12

 

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires occupants of canoes, kayaks, or rowing sculls on state waters who are not part of an official competition to wear a personal floatation device of a type approved by the United States Coast Guard.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0249

06/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to coast guard approved personal flotation devices while on New Hampshire state waters.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; General Rules for Vessels Operating on Water.  Amend RSA 270-D:2 by inserting after paragraph X the following new paragraph:

X-a.  All occupants from November 15 through May 15 in canoes, kayaks, or rowing sculls, not engaged in official competition shall wear a PFD, as defined by RSA 270-D:1, IX, at all times while navigating on state waters.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.