Bill Text: NJ A2538 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows parent or guardian to be present during behind-the-wheel instruction of minor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee [A2538 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A2538-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2538

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 4, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Allows parent or guardian to be present during behind-the-wheel instruction of minor.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning behind-the-wheel instructional experience and supplementing P.L.1951, c.216 (C.39:12-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    No drivers' school, or person employed as a driving instructor, shall prohibit a parent or guardian from being a passenger in the backseat of a motor vehicle during a student's behind-the-wheel instructional experience if the student is under 18 years of age.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Under the provisions of this bill, no drivers' school, or person employed as a driving instructor, could prohibit a parent or guardian from being a passenger in the backseat of a vehicle during a student's behind-the-wheel instructional experience if the student is under 18 years of age.  The bill allows a parent or guardian of a student who is a minor to take the precaution of being present during the instruction so the student is not alone with the driving instructor.

 

 

                                

 

Allows parent or guardian to be present during behind-the-wheel instruction of minor.