Assembly Bill A1059

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to updating the driver's manual provided to accepted learner's permit applicants and driver education courses

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A1059 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4142
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §502, V & T L; amd §806-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7239
2019-2020: S3054
2021-2022: A5412, S3240

2023-A1059 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to updating the driver's manual provided to accepted learner's permit applicants and driver education courses to include a description of law enforcement procedures during traffic stops and the actions a motorist shall take during such stop including appropriate interactions with such officers.

2023-A1059 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1059
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law and the education law, in
   relation  to  updating  the  driver's  manual  provided  to   accepted
   learner's permit applicants and driver education courses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 502 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 97 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3.  Application  for  learner's permit. An application for a learner's
 permit shall be included in the application for a license.  A  learner's
 permit  shall be issued in such form as the commissioner shall determine
 but shall not be issued unless the applicant has successfully passed the
 vision test required by this section and the test set forth in paragraph
 (a) of subdivision four of this section with respect to laws relating to
 traffic and ability to read and comprehend traffic signs and symbols and
 has satisfactorily completed any course required pursuant  to  paragraph
 (a)  of subdivision four of this section. Upon acceptance of an applica-
 tion for a learner's permit the commissioner shall provide the applicant
 with a driver's manual which includes but is not  limited  to  the  laws
 relating  to  traffic, the laws relating to and physiological effects of
 driving while ability impaired and driving while  intoxicated,  the  law
 for  exercising  due  care  to avoid colliding with a parked, stopped or
 standing vehicle pursuant to section eleven hundred forty-four-a of this
 chapter, explanations of traffic signs and symbols, A DESCRIPTION OF LAW
 ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES DURING TRAFFIC STOPS AND THE ACTIONS  A  MOTORIST
 SHALL TAKE DURING SUCH STOP INCLUDING APPROPRIATE INTERACTIONS WITH SUCH
 OFFICERS and such other matters as the commissioner may prescribe.
   §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 806-a of the education law, as amended
 by chapter 644 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03132-01-3
              

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