Bill Text: PA HB1189 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Further providing for motorcycle safety education program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 38-22)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-09-20 - Removed from table [HB1189 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1189-Amended.html

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PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1417 PRINTER'S NO. 2072
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1189 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY GEIST, MARKOSEK, BAKER, BARRAR, BEYER, BOBACK, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CAUSER, CONKLIN, P. COSTA, DePASQUALE, EVERETT, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GINGRICH, GROVE, HALUSKA, HARKINS, HARPER, HESS, HUTCHINSON, M. KELLER, KILLION, KORTZ, LONGIETTI, MAHER, MAHONEY, MARSICO, MELIO, METZGAR, MILLER, MOUL, MURT, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, PYLE, QUINN, RAPP, READSHAW, REED, REICHLEY, SABATINA, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, SONNEY, STERN, VULAKOVICH, WALKO, WATSON, YOUNGBLOOD, CREIGHTON AND GIBBONS, APRIL 3, 2009
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 9, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for motorcycle safety education
program.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7911 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 7911. Motorcycle safety education program.
(a) General rule.--The department shall establish a
motorcycle safety education program throughout this
Commonwealth. It shall approve and conduct an annual review of
course material for authorized schools. It shall certify all
instructors and shall include a uniform curriculum for the
course of instruction and training requirements for instructors.
The department shall be responsible for certifying schools to
conduct approved motorcycle safety courses and shall adopt such
necessary rules and regulations to govern the administration of
motorcycle education within this Commonwealth.
(b) Exemption from liability.--The owner of land who
authorizes the owner's his property to be used for the purposes <--
of an approved motorcycle safety education program as provided
in subsection (a) shall not be held civilly liable for any
injury or death to persons or damage to property that may occur
during the course of instruction or training, except for willful
or malicious failure to warn against a dangerous condition, use,
structure or activity.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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