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Bill tightening boating safety passes Senate, moves to House
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ATLANTA — The state Senate unanimously passed new boating legislation Friday that is intended to make Lake Lanier and other waterways in Georgia safer. The Kile Glover Boat Education Law and Jake and Griffin Prince BUI Law were drafted in response to two tragic boating accidents on Lake Lanier last summer that killed three children. The laws make up one bill that includes several regulations, such as lowering the legal blood alcohol level of boat and personal watercraft operators to the same limit for driving a car, requiring boater education, raising the age of children required to wear life jackets and clarifying age limits for operating certain vessels.