Bill Text: MI HB4723 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; driver training; driver training courses; expand to include instruction relating to no-fault insurance coverage in Michigan. Amends secs. 35 & 37 of 2006 PA 384 (MCL 256.655 & 256.657) & adds sec. 32.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-18 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/18/2019 [HB4723 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB4723-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4723

 

 

June 13, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Yaroch, Rabhi, Wozniak, Brann, Yancey and Liberati and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

     A bill to amend 2006 PA 384, entitled

 

"Driver education provider and instructor act,"

 

by amending sections 35 and 37 (MCL 256.655 and 256.657), section

 

35 as amended by 2012 PA 258 and section 37 as amended by 2018 PA

 

277, and by adding section 32.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 32. (1) A driver education course must include

 

instruction on automobile insurance, including, but not limited to,

 

information regarding all of the following:

 

     (a) The requirement to obtain automobile insurance and the

 

penalties for operating a motor vehicle without automobile

 

insurance.

 

     (b) The minimum automobile insurance coverage required by law.

 

     (c) The ability to purchase higher coverage limits and

 

optional automobile insurance coverage.

 

     (d) The benefits and limitations of each type of coverage.

 

     (e) Insurance cost, including an explanation of premiums and

 

deductibles.

 

     (2) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Automobile insurance" means that term as defined in

 

section 2102 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL

 

500.2102.

 

     (b) "Motor vehicle" means that term as defined in section 3101

 

of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.3101.

 

     Sec. 35. (1) The secretary of state shall prescribe a model

 

curriculum for teen driver training under this act. After September

 

1, 2007, a A driver education provider classified for teen driver

 

training shall use the secretary of state's prescribed model

 

curriculum or may use an alternative curriculum only after it has

 

been reviewed and approved by the secretary of state. The secretary

 

of state may approve an alternative curriculum if it substantially

 

meets or exceeds the standards of the secretary of state's

 

prescribed model curriculum.

 

     (2) Under a segment 1 curriculum and segment 2 curriculum

 

combined, each student shall receive no less than 30 hours of

 

classroom instruction and 6 hours of behind-the-wheel driver

 

education course experience.

 

     (3) The model curriculum and an approved alternative

 

curriculum under subsection (1) must include automobile insurance

 

instruction in accordance with section 32.

 

     Sec. 37. (1) A segment 1 curriculum shall must include both

 

classroom and behind-the-wheel driver education course experience.

The classroom instruction and behind-the-wheel instruction shall

 

must be integrated, relate to each other, and meet the following

 

requirements:

 

     (a) Each student shall receive not less than 24 hours of

 

classroom instruction. Classroom instruction shall must be

 

scheduled to occur as follows:

 

     (i) Classroom instruction shall must occur not more than 2

 

hours per day.

 

     (ii) Classroom instruction shall must occur over the course of

 

3 or more weeks.

 

     (iii) Classroom instruction of 4 or more hours shall must be

 

received before the student begins to receive behind-the-wheel

 

instruction.

 

     (iv) Classroom instruction shall must include not less than 1

 

hour of information concerning the laws pertaining to bicycles,

 

motorcycles, and other vulnerable roadway users, including

 

pedestrians, and shall must emphasize awareness of their operation

 

on the streets, roads, and highways of this state. The laws of this

 

state pertaining to awareness of bicycles, motorcycles, and other

 

vulnerable roadway users, including pedestrians, shall must also be

 

incorporated into other subject areas of the curriculum where

 

appropriate. The requirements of this subparagraph apply to both

 

the model curriculum and an approved curriculum described in

 

section 35. The information required by this subparagraph may be

 

incorporated into the segment 1 curriculum or the segment 2

 

classroom course described in section 39(b).

 

     (v) Classroom instruction shall must include information

concerning the proper actions to be taken by a driver during a

 

traffic stop.

 

     (vi) Classroom instruction must include information concerning

 

automobile insurance in accordance with section 32.

 

     (vii) (vi) Behind-the-wheel instruction of 3 or more hours

 

shall must be completed before classroom instruction terminates.

 

     (b) Each student shall receive not less than 6 hours of

 

behind-the-wheel instruction or substitute hours permitted under

 

this subsection. Behind-the-wheel instruction shall must be

 

scheduled to occur as follows:

 

     (i) A student shall receive not more than 1 hour of behind-

 

the-wheel instruction per day.

 

     (ii) Not more than 1 student shall occupy the front seat of

 

the vehicle with the instructor.

 

     (iii) A driver education motor vehicle shall must not contain

 

not more than 4 students during behind-the-wheel instruction.

 

     (iv) Not later than 3 weeks after the last classroom

 

instruction has been completed, a student shall complete any

 

remaining required behind-the-wheel instruction.

 

     (v) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a student

 

may receive instruction while operating a motor vehicle at a

 

multiple vehicle driving facility. One hour of instruction received

 

at a multiple vehicle driving facility may substitute as credit for

 

1 hour of behind-the-wheel experience. A maximum of 2 hours of

 

behind-the-wheel experience can be substituted with instruction

 

received at a multiple vehicle driving facility.

 

     (c) A student shall receive 4 or more hours of behind-the-

wheel observation time.

 

     (2) A driver education provider classified for teen driver

 

training shall not substitute behind-the-wheel instruction with

 

multiple vehicle driving facility experience until the secretary of

 

state gives the provider written approval for that substitution as

 

provided in this act.

 

     (3) A driver education provider classified for teen driver

 

training shall not substitute behind-the-wheel driving experience

 

with simulator device training.

 

     (4) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Integrated" means classroom and behind-the-wheel

 

instruction scheduled to include a mix of classroom and behind-the-

 

wheel instruction throughout the duration of the driver education

 

course, except as otherwise provided in this section.

 

     (b) "Observation time" means the time a student in a driver

 

education course sits in the rear seat of a vehicle and observes

 

another student in the front seat behind the wheel operating the

 

controls of the vehicle, responding to driving situations, and with

 

an instructor sitting in the front seat.

 

     (5) This section shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"Nathan Bower act".

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.