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Staff briefs council on four boating-related bills: AIS education, insurance verification, registration timing and watercraft definitions
Summary
Division staff summarized HB147 (AIS amendments), SB27 (insurance reporting and registration letter timing), SB52 (registration reporting expansion) and SB200 (watercraft definition changes, including eFoils and jet devices). No formal council action was taken.
At the Feb. 4 meeting the division staff provided a legislative update outlining four bills affecting boating policy in Utah.
Ty Hunter, voting program manager, told the council the division is monitoring House Bill 147, described as “aquatic invasive species amendments,” which would remove paddlecraft from a mandatory education requirement and make housekeeping changes about which division issues AIS decals.
Hunter summarized Senate Bill 27 as proposing an insurance-verification system: insurers…
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