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type: "Bill"
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title: "Boating safety course; database listing operators who have passed course."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "SB 866"
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citation: "Virginia SB 866 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Game", "Inland Fisheries and Boating"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Stuart"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2016-12-07"
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last_action: "2017-03-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1a9364b-d2ba-48f9-a843-e532ba15958b"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB866"
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source_hash: "5d9c91d6b9777942f77e6c8e7a63f5f06b0dda4be58c16b04a625b96d4461cfa"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 866 (2017) — Boating safety course; database listing operators who have passed course.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0360)
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2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB866ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB866ER)
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3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104127D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB866S1)
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4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101148D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB866)
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## Votes
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- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed House — **86–13** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **20–2** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-12-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101148D `introduction`
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- **2016-12-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-31** Reading of substitute waived
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- **2017-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 17104127D-S1
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- **2017-01-31** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB866S1
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- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-06** Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-17** Passed House (86-Y 13-N) `passage`
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- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
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- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 360 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1a9364b-d2ba-48f9-a843-e532ba15958b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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