Bill Text: NY A10746 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring attendance at motor vehicle accident prevention courses for certain individuals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-18 - referred to transportation [A10746 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A10746-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10746
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 18, 2012
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the insurance law, in
relation to motor vehicle accident prevention courses for certain
individuals
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 510-d to read as follows:
3 S 510-D. MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT PREVENTION COURSE FOR VIOLATIONS
4 COMMITTED BY HOLDERS OF CLASS DJ OR CLASS MJ LEARNER'S PERMITS OR
5 LICENSES. ANY PERSON WHOSE CLASS DJ OR CLASS MJ LEARNER'S PERMIT OR
6 LICENSE IS REVOKED OR SUSPENDED PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED TEN-C
7 OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL COMPLETE A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT PREVENTION
8 COURSE AS APPROVED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWELVE-B OR TWELVE-C OF THIS
9 CHAPTER PRIOR TO REINSTATEMENT OF HIS OR HER DRIVING PRIVILEGES;
10 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT COMPLETION OF SUCH COURSE PURSUANT TO THIS
11 SECTION SHALL NOT ENTITLE SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO A POINT REDUCTION OR INSUR-
12 ANCE PREMIUM REDUCTION PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-
13 SIX OF THE INSURANCE LAW.
14 S 2. Subsection (a) of section 2336 of the insurance law, as amended
15 by chapter 751 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
16 (a) Any schedule of rates or rating plan for motor vehicle liability
17 and collision insurance submitted to the superintendent shall provide
18 for an appropriate reduction in premium charges for any insured for a
19 three year period after successfully completing a motor vehicle accident
20 prevention course, known as the national safety council's defensive
21 driving course, or any driver improvement course approved by the depart-
22 ment of motor vehicles as being equivalent to the national safety coun-
23 cil's defensive driving course, provided that, except as provided in
24 article twelve-C of the vehicle and traffic law, there shall be no
25 reduction in premiums for a self instruction defensive driving course or
26 a course which does not provide for actual classroom instruction for a
27 minimum number of hours as determined by the department of motor vehi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 cles. Such reduction in premium charges shall be subsequently modified
2 to the extent appropriate, based upon analysis of loss experience
3 statistics and other relevant factors. All such accident prevention
4 courses shall be monitored by the department of motor vehicles and shall
5 include components of instruction in "Road Rage" awareness and in "Work
6 Zone Safety" awareness as defined by the commissioner of motor vehicles.
7 The provisions of this section shall not apply to A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCI-
8 DENT PREVENTION COURSE COMPLETED PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED TEN-D
9 OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW OR attendance at a program pursuant to
10 article twenty-one of the vehicle and traffic law as a result of any
11 traffic infraction.
12 S 3. Subsection (a) of section 2336 of the insurance law, as amended
13 by chapter 585 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
14 (a) Any schedule of rates or rating plan for motor vehicle liability
15 and collision insurance submitted to the superintendent shall provide
16 for an appropriate reduction in premium charges for any insured for a
17 three year period after successfully completing a motor vehicle accident
18 prevention course, known as the national safety council's defensive
19 driving course, or any driver improvement course approved by the depart-
20 ment of motor vehicles as being equivalent to the national safety coun-
21 cil's defensive driving course, provided that in either event there
22 shall be no reduction in premiums for a self instruction defensive driv-
23 ing course or a course which does not provide for actual classroom
24 instruction for a minimum number of hours as determined by the depart-
25 ment of motor vehicles. Such reduction in premium charges shall be
26 subsequently modified to the extent appropriate, based upon analysis of
27 loss experience statistics and other relevant factors. All such accident
28 prevention courses shall be monitored by the department of motor vehi-
29 cles and shall include components of instruction in "Road Rage" aware-
30 ness and in "Work Zone Safety" awareness as defined by the commissioner
31 of motor vehicles. The provisions of this section shall not apply to A
32 MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT PREVENTION COURSE COMPLETED PURSUANT TO SECTION
33 FIVE HUNDRED TEN-D OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW OR attendance at a
34 program pursuant to article twenty-one of the vehicle and traffic law as
35 a result of any traffic infraction.
36 S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
37 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subsection
38 (a) of section 2336 of the insurance law made by section two of this act
39 shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subsection
40 pursuant to section 5 of chapter 751 of the laws of 2005, as amended,
41 when upon such date the provisions of section three of this act shall
42 take effect.
