Bill Text: IN SB0101 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Operator's license and learner's permit issues.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-12 - Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 479: yeas 26, nays 64 [SB0101 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-SB0101-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 9-24; IC 9-26-1-1.5.
Synopsis: Driver education issues. Authorizes the bureau of motor
vehicles (bureau) to issue a learner's permit to a person at least 15 years
of age under certain conditions. (Current law authorizes the bureau to
issue a learner's permit to a person at least 15 years and 180 days of
age.) Provides that, effective July 1, 2011, an individual who has not
passed an approved driver education course must: (1) be at least 17
years and 180 days of age; and (2) have held a valid learner's permit for
at least 180 days in order to receive an operator's license.
Effective: Upon passage.
January 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Homeland Security,
Transportation & Veterans Affairs.
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(1) The individual meets the following conditions:
(A) Is at least sixteen (16) years and one hundred eighty (180) days of age.
(B) Has held a valid learner's permit for at least one hundred eighty (180) days.
(C) Obtains an instructor's certification that the individual has satisfactorily completed an approved driver education course.
(D) Passes the required examination.
(E) Completes at least fifty (50) hours of supervised driving practice, of which at least ten (10) hours are nighttime driving,
with:
(i) a licensed instructor or a licensed driver who is at least
twenty-five (25) years of age; or
(ii) the spouse of the individual who is at least twenty-one
(21) years of age.
(2) The individual meets the following conditions:
(A) Is at least sixteen (16) years and two hundred seventy
(270) days of age.
(B) Has held a valid learner's permit for at least one hundred
eighty (180) days.
(C) Passes the required examination.
(D) Completes at least fifty (50) hours of supervised driving
practice, of which at least ten (10) hours are nighttime driving,
with:
(i) a licensed instructor or a licensed driver who is at least
twenty-five (25) years of age; or
(ii) the spouse of the individual who is at least twenty-one
(21) years of age.
This subdivision expires June 30, 2011.
(3) Effective July 1, 2011, the individual meets the following
conditions:
(A) Is at least seventeen (17) years and one hundred eighty
(180) days of age.
(B) Has held a valid learner's permit for at least one
hundred eighty (180) days.
(C) Passes the required examination.
(D) Completes at least fifty (50) hours of supervised
driving practice, of which at least ten (10) hours are
nighttime driving, with:
(i) a licensed instructor or a licensed driver who is at
least twenty-five (25) years of age; or
(ii) the spouse of the individual who is at least twenty-one
(21) years of age.
(3) (4) The individual meets the following conditions:
(A) Is at least sixteen (16) years and one hundred eighty (180)
days of age but less than eighteen (18) years of age.
(B) Has previously been a nonresident of Indiana, but, at the
time of application, qualifies as an Indiana resident.
(C) Holds an unrevoked driver's license, excluding a learner's
permit or the equivalent, in the state or a combination of states
in which the individual formerly resided for at least one
hundred eighty (180) days.
(D) Passes the required examination.
(A) Is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
(B) Has previously been a nonresident of Indiana but, at the time of application, qualifies as an Indiana resident.
(C) Has held an unrevoked operator's, chauffeur's, commercial driver's, or public passenger chauffeur's license from the state of prior residence.
(D) Passes the required examination.
(1) Is at least fifteen (15) years of age.
(2) If less than eighteen (18) years of age, is not ineligible under IC 9-24-2-1.
(3) Is enrolled in an approved driver education course.
(1) the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of determining the need for or rendering assistance to any injured or entrapped person as required under section 1(2)(C) of this chapter;
(2) there is another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident who is:
(A) at least:
(i) fifteen (15) years of age and holds a learner's permit issued under IC 9-24-7-1 before its repeal or IC 9-24-7-1.1 or a driver's license issued under IC 9-24-11; or
(ii) eighteen (18) years of age; and
(B) capable of determining the need for and rendering reasonable assistance to injured or entrapped persons as provided in section 1(2)(C) of this chapter; and
(3) the other occupant in the vehicle knows that the driver of the vehicle is physically incapable of determining the need for or rendering assistance to any injured or entrapped person;
the vehicle occupant referred to in subdivisions (2) and (3) shall immediately determine the need for and render reasonable assistance to each person injured or entrapped in the accident as provided in section 1(2)(C) of this chapter.
(b) If:
(1) the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required under section 1(3) of this chapter;
(2) there is another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident who is:
(A) at least:
(i) fifteen (15) years of age and holds a learner's permit issued under IC 9-24-7-1 before its repeal or IC 9-24-7-1.1 or a driver's license issued under IC 9-24-11; or
(ii) eighteen (18) years of age; and
(B) capable of giving notice as provided in section 1(3) of this chapter; and
(3) the other occupant in the vehicle knows that the driver of the vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident;
the vehicle occupant referred to in subdivisions (2) and (3) shall immediately give notice of the accident by the quickest means of communication as provided in section 1(3) of this chapter.
(c) If there is more than one (1) vehicle occupant to whom subsection (a) applies, it is a defense to a prosecution of one (1) vehicle occupant under subsection (a) that the defendant reasonably believed that another occupant of the vehicle determined the need for and rendered reasonable assistance as required under subsection (a).
(d) If there is more than one (1) vehicle occupant to whom subsection (b) applies, it is a defense to a prosecution of one (1) vehicle occupant under subsection (b) that the defendant reasonably believed that another occupant of the vehicle gave the notice required under subsection (b).
