Bill Text: NY A08275 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the distribution of information in the pre-licensing course to operate a motor vehicle on how to register as an organ and tissue donor.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Passed) 2024-11-22 - signed chap.477 [A08275 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08275-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8275--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BERGER,  THIELE,  HEVESI, ANDERSON, ZACCARO,
          SILLITTI, FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transpor-
          tation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          distribution of information in the  pre-licensing  course  on  how  to
          register as an organ and tissue donor

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

     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 502 of the vehi-
     2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 379 of the laws of  2022,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (d)  (i)  The  commissioner shall make available for distribution upon
     5  registration at each location where the  pre-licensing  course  will  be
     6  given[,] (1) instructional handbooks outlining the content of the entire
     7  curriculum   of  the  pre-licensing  course  including  the  information
     8  required to be included in the course pursuant to paragraphs (c), (c-1),
     9  (c-2), (c-3), (c-4) and (c-5) of this subdivision, and  (2)  information
    10  as  to  how a person may register in the New York state organ and tissue
    11  donor registry under section  forty-three  hundred  ten  of  the  public
    12  health law.
    13    (ii)   The commissioner shall also provide for the additional training
    14  of the instructors necessary for the competent instruction of the  alco-
    15  hol and drug education, "Road Rage" awareness, "Work Zone Safety" aware-
    16  ness,  "Motorcycle  Safety" awareness, "School Bus Safety" awareness and
    17  "Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety" awareness subject matters of the  pre-
    18  licensing course.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03920-02-4