Bill Text: NY S02739 | 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8275A [S02739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02739-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2739--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. COMRIE, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
          recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in  accordance  with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- 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.
                                                                   LBD03920-03-4