Bill Text: NY A09063 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires drivers between 16 and 25 years of age to take and pass the national safety council course, or a similar nationally recognized course in order to obtain a license or upon conviction of a moving violation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-12 - referred to transportation [A09063 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A09063-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9063 I N A S S E M B L Y March 12, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring drivers between sixteen and twenty-five years of age to take and pass the national safety council course, or a similar nationally approved course approved by the department of motor vehicles in order to obtain a license or upon conviction of a moving violation THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows: 3 (C-1) AS A PREREQUISITE TO RECEIVING A LICENSE, AN APPLICANT FOR A 4 CLASS D LICENSE WHO IS AT LEAST SIXTEEN BUT NOT MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE 5 YEARS OF AGE SHALL BE REQUIRED TO TAKE AND PASS THE NATIONAL SAFETY 6 COUNCIL COURSE, OR A SIMILAR NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED COURSE APPROVED BY 7 THE DEPARTMENT, RELATING TO YOUNG DRIVER'S ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS 8 BEHIND THE WHEEL. THE COURSE MUST BE NOT LESS THAN FOUR HOURS OR MORE 9 THAN FIVE HOURS, CONSISTING OF CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION RELATING TO THE 10 EFFECTS OF DRIVER INEXPERIENCE, PEER PRESSURE AND DISTRACTIONS SUCH AS 11 CELL PHONES AND TEXTING; WHY YOUNG DRIVERS HAVE SUCH HIGH CRASH 12 VIOLATION RATES AND HOW DRIVING BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES CONTRIBUTE; 13 HAZARD RECOGNITION; ADOPTING SAFE DRIVING BEHAVIORS AND PRACTICES, AND 14 RESPONSIBILITIES OF PASSENGERS. ANY LICENSED DRIVER AT LEAST EIGHTEEN 15 BUT NOT MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE WHO IS CONVICTED OF A MOVING 16 VIOLATION SHALL BE REQUIRED TO TAKE AND PASS THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL 17 COURSE, OR A SIMILAR NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED COURSE APPROVED BY THE 18 DEPARTMENT, RELATING TO YOUNG DRIVER'S ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS BEHIND 19 THE WHEEL. 20 S 2. The commissioner of the department of motor vehicles will estab- 21 lish an application fee for the driver safety course described in 22 section one of this act, as he or she deems appropriate. The fee shall 23 be paid by applicants for a class D license who are under the age of 24 twenty-five. All revenues generated by such fees shall be expended to EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13591-03-4 A. 9063 2 1 cover the costs of implementing the driver's safety course program and 2 the processing of any information necessary to implementing the program. 3 S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 4 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.