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House debates and amends bill to require motorboat endorsement on driver’s license; sponsors cite safety, fiscal gaps remain
Summary
House debate on HB 141 produced adoption of Amendment 2 and detailed Q&A on enforcement, age limits and fiscal impacts. Sponsor said a $5 endorsement and a 10‑horsepower threshold will improve safety; opponents raised enforcement and reciprocal‑livery concerns and sought to delete livery language. Division vote pending at transcript end.
Representative Pace, sponsor of House Bill 141, won early approval for Amendment 2 and offered an extended presentation of the bill, which would create a motorboat endorsement on a Utah driver’s license for vessels with engines greater than 10 horsepower and take effect with penalties beginning Jan. 1, 2006.
Pace said the endorsement would be an optional one‑time endorsement applied when a driver appears for license issuance or renewal; the endorsement fee would be $5 for five years. He described plans for a short knowledge test administered by the Driver License Division and said no mandatory classroom course…
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