CHAPTER 59
HB 1484 – FINAL VERSION
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2006 SESSION
03/04
HOUSE BILL 1484
AN ACT relative to including motorcycle and tractor-trailer safety in driver education courses.
This bill requires motorcycle and tractor-trailer safety education in driver education courses.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22Feb2006… 0946h
06-2372
03/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to including motorcycle and tractor-trailer safety in driver education courses.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
59:1 Driver Education; Motorcycle and Tractor-Trailer Safety. Amend RSA 263:19, I to read as follows:
I. A driver’s license may be issued subject to the provisions of this chapter to a person under the age of 18 years who has attained his or her sixteenth birthday, if such person shall present a certificate of successful completion of a driver education course given by a public or nonpublic secondary school and approved by the department of education in cooperation with the department of safety or given by a motor vehicle drivers’ school licensed under the provisions of this chapter. An approved driver education course, whether conducted by a secondary school or by a school licensed under this chapter, shall consist of both classroom instruction and behind the wheel driver training of not less than 10 hours, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A, published jointly by the commissioner of education and the commissioner of safety, such standards to be not less than those presently required. The classroom instruction shall include 45 minutes of a nationally-recognized motorcycle safety education course approved by the director and the motorcycle rider education program advisory committee and 45 minutes of a nationally-recognized tractor-trailer safety education and awareness course approved by the director. The department of safety, by the nature of its function, shall be held ultimately responsible for setting and maintaining the quality standards for driver education in the state, aided and facilitated by the department of education. This authority shall apply uniformly over both secondary school courses and private motor vehicle drivers’ school courses.
59:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: April 24, 2006
Effective: June 23, 2006