Bill Text: NY A05598 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires boating safety courses to be completed once every three years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-03 - enacting clause stricken [A05598 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05598-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5598

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the navigation law, in relation to requiring boating
          safety courses to be completed once every three years

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 78 of the navigation law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  Boating  safety  certificates awarded under this part shall expire
     4  three years after the holder thereof has successfully completed a course
     5  of instruction in boating safety as provided in this section.
     6    § 2. Section 79 of the navigation law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     7  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     8    3.  A  person previously awarded a boating safety certificate shall be
     9  considered to have completed a course of  instruction  under  this  part
    10  upon  passing  an examination on boating safety developed by the commis-
    11  sioner.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    13  law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06317-01-3
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