Bill Text: PA HB2238 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for personal flotation device requirement.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-10-04 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB2238 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2238-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 4426
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2238 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, REICHLEY, COHEN, READSHAW, VULAKOVICH, HARKINS, MURPHY, BELFANTI, McGEEHAN, MURT, PARKER, THOMAS, BROWN, YOUNGBLOOD, SWANGER AND JOHNSON, OCTOBER 4, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, OCTOBER 4, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, providing for personal flotation device
requirement.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 30 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 5505. Personal flotation device requirement.
(a) Requirement.--A driver of or a passenger on a boat shall
wear a personal flotation device while the boat navigates a
waterway in this Commonwealth.
(b) Penalty.--If a person violates subsection (a), the
boating safety education certificate of the boat operator shall
be revoked.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.