Bill Text: NY A01671 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the DMV to promulgate rules and regulations to approve certain out-of-state or national accident prevention courses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01671 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01671-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1671

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RIVERA
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  recognizing
          out-of-state or national defensive driver classes

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  Section 399-b of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. "Out-of-state course" or "national course" shall mean  an  accident
     4  prevention  course  approved or acknowledged by any state other than New
     5  York state.
     6    § 2. Section 399-g of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter
     7  290 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
     8    § 399-g. Regulations. The commissioner shall promulgate such rules and
     9  regulations as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this  arti-
    10  cle,  including  rules and regulations necessary to approve certain out-
    11  of-state or national courses.  In addition to any requirements expressly
    12  authorized by this article, such regulations  may  include  but  not  be
    13  limited to requirements and standards with respect to: delivery agencies
    14  and  instructors;  classroom  facilities;  suspension  or  revocation of
    15  approval; appeal of suspension or revocation; course administration  and
    16  advertising;  monitoring of courses and instructors; and reevaluation of
    17  course effectiveness pursuant to section three hundred ninety-nine-f  of
    18  this article.
    19    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    20  section one of this act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it
    21  shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01472-01-3