Bill Text: NH HB1310 | 2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Increasing the number of days a motorcycle learners permit is valid and requiring a drivers license for persons under 18 years of age to receive a motorcycle learners permit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-07 - House Signed By Governor 06/05/2012; Effective 08/04/2012; Chapter 0121 [HB1310 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1310-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 121

HB 1310 – FINAL VERSION

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2012 SESSION

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03/05

HOUSE BILL 1310

AN ACT increasing the number of days a motorcycle learner’s permit is valid and requiring a driver’s license for persons under 18 years of age to receive a motorcycle learner’s permit.

SPONSORS: Rep. Pantelakos, Rock 16; Rep. Shurtleff, Merr 10

COMMITTEE: Transportation

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill increases from 30 to 45 the number of days a motorcycle learner’s permit is valid and requires a driver’s license for persons under 18 years of age to receive a motorcycle learner’s permit.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15Feb2012… 0517h

04/11/12 1404s

12-2641

03/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT increasing the number of days a motorcycle learner’s permit is valid and requiring a driver’s license for persons under 18 years of age to receive a motorcycle learner’s permit.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

121:1 Motorcycle Learner's Permit; Validity. Amend RSA 263:32, III to read as follows:

III. The permit shall be valid for [30] 45 days from the date of issuance or until the holder of the permit obtains a special license to drive motorcycles, whichever is sooner.

121:2 Motorcycle Learner’s Permit; Eligibility. Amend RSA 263:32, I to read as follows:

I. Upon application, the department shall issue a motorcycle learner’s permit to a person 18 years of age or older or a person who is 16 years of age or older and under 18 years of age who has successfully completed an approved driver education course and has a valid New Hampshire driver’s license. Applicants for such permit shall furnish proof of their fitness to drive a motorcycle as the director in his or her discretion shall determine. Such proof of fitness shall include either passage of a written basic motorcycle knowledge test approved by the commissioner and the motorcycle rider education program advisory committee or successful completion of the motorcycle rider education program under RSA 263:34-b, but shall not include a driver examination.

121:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: June 5, 2012

Effective Date: August 4, 2012