Bill Text: TX HB2117 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain persons to wear a personal flotation device while a passenger on motorboats.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [HB2117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2117-Introduced.html
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By: Klick | H.B. No. 2117 |
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relating to requiring certain persons to wear a personal flotation | ||
device while a passenger on motorboats. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 31.066(b), (d), and (e), Parks and | ||
Wildlife Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The operator of a motorboat less than 26 feet in length, | ||
while underway, shall require every passenger born on or after | ||
September 1, 2003, [ |
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personal flotation device of the sort prescribed by the regulations | ||
of the commandant of the Coast Guard. A life belt or ring buoy does | ||
not satisfy this requirement. | ||
(d) A person born on or after September 1, 2003, who is | ||
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31.073(a) or (b) must wear a wearable personal flotation device of | ||
the sort prescribed by the commandant of the Coast Guard while the | ||
vessel is under way. | ||
(e) An adult operator of a vessel described by Section | ||
31.073 may not permit a person born on or after September 1, 2003, | ||
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under way if the person born on or after September 1, 2003, [ |
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required by Subsection (d). | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |