Wave Runner Task Force “Passed Over” For Committee Review

A House Bill sponsored by lake area Representative Lisa Thomas is stopped short of being heard in a public hearing.

The bill, as written, would create what’s being called the “Missouri Patrol on Wave Runners Task Force” which would establish a law enforcement and first responder personal watercraft patrol for Lake of the Ozarks.

The task force would work in conjunction with the highway patrol’s water patrol division which would remain the principal law enforcement entity on the lake.

Thomas’s bill was scheduled to be taken up on the 18^th by the Crime Prevention and Public Safety committee which passed on hearing the bill.

At the current time, the bill does not appear on the calendar for any further consideration.