Relates to updating the driver's manual provided to accepted learner's permit applicants and driver education courses to include a description of law enforcement procedures during traffic stops and the actions a motorist shall take during such stop including appropriate interactions with such officers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4142
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 3, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the education law, in
relation to updating the driver's manual provided to accepted
learner's permit applicants and driver education courses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 97 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Application for learner's permit. An application for a learner's
5 permit shall be included in the application for a license. A learner's
6 permit shall be issued in such form as the commissioner shall determine
7 but shall not be issued unless the applicant has successfully passed the
8 vision test required by this section and the test set forth in paragraph
9 (a) of subdivision four of this section with respect to laws relating to
10 traffic and ability to read and comprehend traffic signs and symbols and
11 has satisfactorily completed any course required pursuant to paragraph
12 (a) of subdivision four of this section. Upon acceptance of an applica-
13 tion for a learner's permit the commissioner shall provide the applicant
14 with a driver's manual which includes but is not limited to the laws
15 relating to traffic, the laws relating to and physiological effects of
16 driving while ability impaired and driving while intoxicated, the law
17 for exercising due care to avoid colliding with a parked, stopped or
18 standing vehicle pursuant to section eleven hundred forty-four-a of this
19 chapter, explanations of traffic signs and symbols, a description of law
20 enforcement procedures during traffic stops and the actions a motorist
21 shall take during such stop including appropriate interactions with such
22 officers and such other matters as the commissioner may prescribe.
23 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 806-a of the education law, as amended
24 by chapter 644 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03132-01-3
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1 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all school districts
2 providing instruction in driver education shall include in such instruc-
3 tion: (a) a driver safety component with an emphasis on the effects of
4 alcohol and drug use, (b) instruction in motorcycle safety awareness,
5 and (c) a description of law enforcement procedures during traffic stops
6 and the actions a motorist shall take during such stop including appro-
7 priate interactions with such officers. The commissioner, upon approval
8 by the commissioner of motor vehicles, shall establish a curriculum for
9 the alcohol and drug education component which shall include but not be
10 limited to: instruction describing the hazards of driving while impaired
11 or intoxicated; the penalties for alcohol related motor vehicle
12 violations including sanctions set forth in the penal law that apply to
13 homicides and assaults arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle
14 while intoxicated and those sanctions set forth in the vehicle and traf-
15 fic law relating to driving while intoxicated; and the medical, biolog-
16 ical and physiological effects of the consumption of alcohol and their
17 impact on the operation of a motor vehicle.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
