STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
2739--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2023
___________
Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
distribution of information in the pre-licensing course on how to
register as an organ and tissue donor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 502 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 379 of the laws of 2022, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (d) (i) The commissioner shall make available for distribution upon
5 registration at each location where the pre-licensing course will be
6 given[,] (1) instructional handbooks outlining the content of the entire
7 curriculum of the pre-licensing course including the information
8 required to be included in the course pursuant to paragraphs (c), (c-1),
9 (c-2), (c-3), (c-4) and (c-5) of this subdivision, and (2) information
10 as to how a person may register in the New York state organ and tissue
11 donor registry under section forty-three hundred ten of the public
12 health law.
13 (ii) The commissioner shall also provide for the additional training
14 of the instructors necessary for the competent instruction of the alco-
15 hol and drug education, "Road Rage" awareness, "Work Zone Safety" aware-
16 ness, "Motorcycle Safety" awareness, "School Bus Safety" awareness and
17 "Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety" awareness subject matters of the pre-
18 licensing course.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
20 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03920-03-4
