republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-866.md

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Bill	Boating safety course; database listing operators who have passed course.	Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, by July 1, 2018, to create a database listing the name and date of birth and course passage date of every person who has passed an approved boating safety course prior to July 1, 2018. Any person who passes the course after that date may add his information to the database. The bill prohibits a law-enforcement officer from issuing a citation for failure to pass the required boating safety course until he has checked the database for the identity of the motorboat operator and provides that the listing of the operator in the database constitutes satisfactory evidence of having passed the required course.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 866	Virginia SB 866 (2017)	bill	Computer Services and Uses Game Inland Fisheries and Boating	enacted	Richard H. Stuart	4	19	6	2016-12-07	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/a1a9364b-d2ba-48f9-a843-e532ba15958b	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB866	5d9c91d6b9777942f77e6c8e7a63f5f06b0dda4be58c16b04a625b96d4461cfa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 866 (2017) — Boating safety course; database listing operators who have passed course.

Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, by July 1, 2018, to create a database listing the name and date of birth and course passage date of every person who has passed an approved boating safety course prior to July 1, 2018. Any person who passes the course after that date may add his information to the database. The bill prohibits a law-enforcement officer from issuing a citation for failure to pass the required boating safety course until he has checked the database for the identity of the motorboat operator and provides that the listing of the operator in the database constitutes satisfactory evidence of having passed the required course.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB866ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104127D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101148D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House — 86–13 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 20–2 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2016-12-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101148D introduction
• 2016-12-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
• 2017-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 17104127D-S1
• 2017-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB866S1
• 2017-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-02-06 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-17 Passed House (86-Y 13-N) passage
• 2017-02-22 Enrolled
• 2017-02-22 Signed by President
• 2017-02-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-23 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
• 2017-02-23 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 360 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1a9364b-d2ba-48f9-a843-e532ba15958b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).