Bill Text: OH HB35 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: To require the classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction that is given to minors in driver education courses to include instruction on the proper driving techniques that noncommercial motor vehicle operators should utilize in order to share the roadway with large commercial motor vehicles safely.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-19 - To Transportation, Public Safety & Homeland Security [HB35 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2011-HB35-Introduced.html

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As Introduced

129th General Assembly Regular Session 2011-2012

H. B. No. 35

Representative Sears 

Cosponsors: Representatives Blessing, Henne, Kozlowski, Pillich 

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A BILL

To amend section 4508.02 of the Revised Code to

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require the classroom and behind-the-wheel

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instruction that is given to minors in driver

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education courses to include instruction on the

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proper driving techniques that noncommercial motor

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vehicle operators should utilize in order to share

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the roadway with large commercial motor vehicles

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safely.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 4508.02 of the Revised Code be	9
amended to read as follows:	10

Sec. 4508.02.  (A) The director of public safety, subject to	11
Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and prescribe such	12
rules concerning the administration and enforcement of this	13
chapter as are necessary to protect the public. The director shall	14
inspect the school facilities and equipment of applicants and	15
licensees and examine applicants for instructor's licenses.	16

(B) The director shall administer and enforce this chapter.

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(C) The rules shall require twenty-four hours of classroom	18
instruction, and eight hours of actual behind-the-wheel	19
instruction conducted on public streets and highways of this state	20
for all beginning drivers of noncommercial motor vehicles who are	21
under age eighteen. These rules shall require both the classroom	22
and behind-the-wheel instruction to include instruction on the	23
proper driving techniques the operator of a noncommercial motor	24
vehicle such as a passenger vehicle should utilize in order to	25
share the roadway with large commercial motor vehicles safely,	26
especially those commercial motor vehicles consisting of the	27
combination of a commercial tractor and a commercial trailer or	28
semitrailer. Such instruction shall include a review of the	29
stopping distances of such large commercial motor vehicles, the	30
distance the operator of a noncommercial motor vehicle should	31
maintain when following a large commercial motor vehicle,	32
identification of the blind spots with which operators of large	33
commercial motor vehicles must contend, and proper ways and	34
techniques the operator of a noncommercial motor vehicle should	35
utilize in order to avoid operating the noncommercial motor	36
vehicle in the blind spots of large commercial motor vehicles.	37

(D) The rules shall state the minimum hours for classroom and	38
behind-the-wheel instruction required for beginning drivers of	39
commercial trucks, commercial cars, buses, and commercial	40
tractors, trailers, and semi-trailerssemitrailers.	41

Section 2. That existing section 4508.02 of the Revised Code	42
is hereby repealed.	43