Bill Text: NY S04973 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to repeal the authorization of internet technologies as a training method for the administration and completion of approved accident prevention courses for the purposes of granting point and insurance premium reduction benefits and to return any unused funds from the accident prevention course internet technology pilot program fund to the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04973 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04973-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4973 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend chapter 751 of the laws of 2005, amending the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law, relating to establishing the accident prevention course internet technology pilot program, in relation to the effectiveness of such program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The commissioner of motor vehicles shall not approve any 2 additional accident prevention courses or defensive driving programs 3 conducted only over the internet or through other technologies. On or 4 before September 1, 2017, all fees received but not yet expended by the 5 department of motor vehicles pursuant to the provisions of article 12-C 6 of the vehicle and traffic law and all other moneys appropriated, cred- 7 ited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to 8 law for purposes of administering or implementing the provisions of such 9 article shall be returned to the possession of the state comptroller and 10 the commissioner of taxation and finance. 11 § 2. Section 5 of chapter 751 of the laws of 2005, amending the insur- 12 ance law and the vehicle and traffic law relating to establishing the 13 accident prevention course internet technology pilot program, as amended 14 by section 3 of part D of chapter 58 of the laws of 2016, is amended to 15 read as follows: 16 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 17 it shall have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed 18 [April 1, 2020] September 1, 2017; provided that any rules and regu- 19 lations necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effec- 20 tive date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such 21 date. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07385-01-7
