HB 1245 - DIGEST
(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

Develops tools to maintain funding, increase prevention, increase owner accountability, provide for early action, and facilitate enforcement of existing rules governing derelict and abandoned vessels in state waters.

Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Develop and administer a vessel turn-in program; and

(2) Reevaluate criteria regarding the prioritization of vessel removals funded by the derelict vessel removal account.