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Assembly Bill A4953

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring driver education teachers to educate drivers on new traffic laws that have taken effect

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2017-A4953 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §806-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A9048

2017-A4953 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring driver education teachers to educate drivers on new traffic laws that have taken effect.

2017-A4953 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4953
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  driver
   education  teachers  to  educate drivers on new traffic laws that have
   taken effect
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  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:
   1.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law, all school districts
 providing instruction in driver education shall include in such instruc-
 tion: (a) a driver safety component with an emphasis on the  effects  of
 alcohol and drug use, (b) instruction in motorcycle safety awareness AND
 (C) A DETAILED SUMMARY OF NEW TRAFFIC LAWS THAT HAVE TAKEN EFFECT IN THE
 TWELVE  MONTHS  SINCE  THE INSTRUCTION STARTED.   The commissioner, upon
 approval by the  commissioner  of  motor  vehicles,  shall  establish  a
 curriculum  for  the  alcohol  and  drug education component which shall
 include but not be limited to: instruction  describing  the  hazards  of
 driving while impaired or intoxicated; the penalties for alcohol related
 motor  vehicle violations including sanctions set forth in the penal law
 that apply to homicides and assaults arising out of the operation  of  a
 motor  vehicle  while  intoxicated  and those sanctions set forth in the
 vehicle and traffic law relating to driving while intoxicated;  and  the
 medical,  biological  and  physiological  effects  of the consumption of
 alcohol and their impact on the operation of a motor vehicle.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05137-01-7

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