Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 968
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/10/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Dean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
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    6         Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 327.395, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         327.395 Boating safety identification cards.—
    9         (6) A person is exempt from subsection (1) if he or she:
   10         (a) Is licensed by the United States Coast Guard to serve
   11  as master of a vessel.
   12         (b) Operates a vessel only on a private lake or pond.
   13         (c) Is accompanied in the vessel by a person who is exempt
   14  from this section or who holds an identification card in
   15  compliance with this section, is 18 years of age or older, and
   16  is attendant to the operation of the vessel and responsible for
   17  the safe operation of the vessel and for any violation that
   18  occurs during the operation.
   19         (d) Is a nonresident who has in his or her possession proof
   20  that he or she has completed a boater education course or
   21  equivalency examination in another state which meets or exceeds
   22  the requirements of subsection (1).
   23         (e) Is operating a vessel within 90 days after the purchase
   24  of that vessel and has available for inspection aboard that
   25  vessel a bill of sale meeting the requirements of s. 328.46(1).
   26         (f) Is operating a vessel within 90 days after completing
   27  the requirements of (1)(a) or (b) of this section and has
   28  available for inspection photographic identification and his or
   29  her Boater Education Certificate as proof that the course was
   30  successfully completed. The Boater Education Certificate must
   31  provide, at a minimum, the student’s first and last name, date
   32  of birth and the date he or she passed the course examination.
   33         (g)(f) Is exempted by rule of the commission.
   34         Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 327.54, Florida
   35  Statutes, is amended to read:
   36         327.54 Liveries; safety regulations; penalty.—
   37         (2) A livery may not knowingly lease, hire, or rent any
   38  vessel powered by a motor of 10 horsepower or greater to any
   39  person who is required to comply with s. 327.395, unless such
   40  person presents to the livery a valid boater safety
   41  identification card to the livery or proof of meeting the
   42  temporary exemption provided by s. 327.395(6)(f).
   43         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
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   45  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   46         And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   48  and insert:
   49                        A bill to be entitled                      
   50         An act relating to boating safety; amending s.
   51         327.395, F.S.; providing an exemption for requiring
   52         boating safety identification cards under certain
   53         circumstances; amending s. 327.54, F.S.; requiring
   54         liveries to require proof of valid boater safety
   55         identification card or proof that person passed the
   56         boating education safety course examination; providing
   57         an effective date.