NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs ‘Brianna’s Law,’ Requiring Boat Safety Training
New York state has a new law designed to make our waters safer.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed “Brianna’s Law” during a ceremony in Copiague on August 6, 2019.
It’s named after 11-year-old Brianna Lieneck, who died in a 2005 boating accident off the coast of Long Island.
The new law requires boat operators to take a state-approved boating safety course.
“It’s not intuition. It’s not, ‘Well, I’m smart. I know how to drive a car. I can do this.’ No, you [can’t]. It’s a totally different environment, and you don’t want to learn the hard way that you don’t know how to handle this totally different environment,” Cuomo said.
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Brianna’s mother was at the ceremony and thanked the governor for supporting the new law.