Actually it would be fairly easy to ammend the statute and enhance the Safety Certificate.
Simply follow the same protocol we currently do with the motor vehicle code and require
all New Hampshire residents to obtain a New Hampshire certificate.
We accept the fact, under the driver license reciprocity statute, that we will accept other States driver's licenses even though we have no control over other States driver education requirements. Hence the same with boater certificates. Its the cost of doing business.
However, the issue of not requiring New Hampshire residents to posess a New Hampshire boater certificate was just plain sloppy legislation.
So why not just go back and simply ammend the statute? Because once you get a law back before the House & the Senate no one can be sure what will happen to it when folks start tacking ammendments on to the bill.
Example? Once again I'll bring up the RSA regarding overnight mooring. Everyone at Safety knows that the current ban only applies to one specific classification of boat, even though that statue is misrepresented in both the training guides and information put out by the Department. But no one wants to revisit the statute as was attempted over a decade ago, because of the fear that an ammendment won't pass and the problem could become unmanageable once the public realizes the truth.
Kind of like the debacle that happened when Safety attempted to regulate swim rafts through the Adminstrative Code process and had its hand slapped by the Legislture.
Ah, politics in New Hampshire...you gotta love it!
