Senate Bill S3860

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing the Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alternate locations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S3860 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8326
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §507, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S9144

2019-S3860 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing the Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alternate locations including at the Arthur Kill Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island and the Manor Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, located in the county of Richmond.

2019-S3860 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S3860 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3860
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing the
   Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alter-
   nate locations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 507 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 215 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  Driver  education.  Notwithstanding  any  other provisions of this
 article, a class D or class M license, whichever is appropriate, may  be
 issued  to a minor seventeen years of age who has successfully completed
 a driver education course approved by the state education department and
 the commissioner in a high school or college and who has submitted proof
 of completion of the minimum hours of supervised driving as required  in
 paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  two of section five hundred two of this
 article; PROVIDED HOWEVER, THE YESHIVA OF STATEN ISLAND, WHICH  OPERATES
 AS  A  HIGH  SCHOOL,  MAY PROVIDE DRIVER EDUCATION COURSES AT THE ARTHUR
 KILL ROAD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND AND  THE  MANOR  ROAD
 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND, LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF RICH-
 MOND.   No such driver education course may be approved unless classroom
 training is provided by a person approved by the state education depart-
 ment and the commissioner.  However, a school district may contract with
 one or more licensed drivers' schools to provide behind the wheel train-
 ing, pursuant  to  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner.  The
 commissioner  shall  prescribe  the  requirements  for licensing of such
 minors. A student enrolled in such an approved driver  education  course
 may  operate  a  motor  vehicle  without holding a driver's license or a
 learner's permit while under the immediate supervision of an  instructor
 in  such  course  or  a  driver's school instructor providing behind the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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