HD55 - The Licensing of Boat Operators and Ways to Enhance Boating Safety

  • Published: 1991
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 102 (Regular Session, 1990)

Executive Summary:
The 1990 Session of the General Assembly passed House Joint Resolution Number 102, patroned by Delegate C. Richard Cranwell, requesting that a joint subcommittee be established to study the licensing of boat operators and ways to enhance boating safety (Attachment A). The subcommittee was charged with reviewing the necessity of increased boating safety and ways to enhance boating safety; determining the benefits and costs of mandating a boating license and examining the resulting impact on boating safety; and studying the feasibility of requiring boating safety courses, including ways to minimize the administrative costs.

The membership of the joint subcommittee was appointment as follows: The Speaker of the House appointed Delegates Glenn R. Croshaw, Watkins M. Abbitt, Jr., and G. Steven Agee, all of the House Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections appointed Senators Frank W. Nolen and John H. Chichester, both of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources.