Bill Text: NY S09144 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing the Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alternate locations including at the Arthur Kill Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island and the Manor Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, located in the county of Richmond.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-08-01 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09144 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S09144-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9144
                    IN SENATE
                                     August 1, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing the
          Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alter-
          nate locations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 507 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 215 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    1.  Driver  education.  Notwithstanding  any  other provisions of this
     5  article, a class D or class M license, whichever is appropriate, may  be
     6  issued  to a minor seventeen years of age who has successfully completed
     7  a driver education course approved by the state education department and
     8  the commissioner in a high school or college and who has submitted proof
     9  of completion of the minimum hours of supervised driving as required  in
    10  paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  two of section five hundred two of this
    11  article; provided however, the Yeshiva of Staten Island, which  operates
    12  as  a  high  school,  may provide driver education courses at the Arthur
    13  Kill Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island and  the  Manor  Road
    14  Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, located in the county of Rich-
    15  mond.   No such driver education course may be approved unless classroom
    16  training is provided by a person approved by the state education depart-
    17  ment and the commissioner.  However, a school district may contract with
    18  one or more licensed drivers' schools to provide behind the wheel train-
    19  ing, pursuant  to  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner.  The
    20  commissioner  shall  prescribe  the  requirements  for licensing of such
    21  minors. A student enrolled in such an approved driver  education  course
    22  may  operate  a  motor  vehicle  without holding a driver's license or a
    23  learner's permit while under the immediate supervision of an  instructor
    24  in  such  course  or  a  driver's school instructor providing behind the
    25  wheel training in such a course, provided such operation is  in  accord-
    26  ance  with  the rules established by the commissioner. Every student who
    27  successfully completes such course in a day, evening  or  summer  school
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16290-01-8
        S. 9144                             2
     1  program  offered  by  a  public  or private school shall receive certif-
     2  ication of such completion on a certificate prescribed  by  the  commis-
     3  sioner.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.