General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5680
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 5035
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Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
(TRA)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 5680
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 5035
*_____HB05680TRA___032017____*
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
(TRA)
AN ACT CONCERNING PARENT ATTENDANCE AT SAFE DRIVING INSTRUCTION COURSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 14-36j of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):
(a) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall amend the regulations adopted pursuant to sections 14-36f and 14-78 concerning the content of safe driving instruction courses offered at drivers' schools, high schools and other secondary schools to require the eight hours of instruction required by such regulations to include, for applicants to whom a learner's permit or youth instruction permit is issued, two hours of instruction concerning the statutory provisions, including penalties, applicable to drivers who are less than eighteen years of age, the dangers of teenage driving, the cognitive development of adolescents, the responsibilities and liabilities of parents of teenage drivers, and related topics deemed by the commissioner to be appropriate.
(b) (1) A parent or guardian of any such applicant to whom a learner's permit or youth instruction permit is issued on or after August 1, 2008, who is less than eighteen years of age, shall attend such two hours of instruction with such applicant, unless such parent or guardian is exempt from such instruction under subdivision (2) of this subsection.
(2) A parent or guardian of any such applicant to whom a learner's permit or youth instruction permit is issued, who is less than eighteen years of age, shall be exempt from the instruction requirement set forth in subsection (a) of this section if such parent or guardian completed the two hours of instruction with another applicant not more than three years prior to the date that such parent or guardian provides the commissioner with an affidavit in accordance with subparagraph (B) of subdivision (3) of this subsection.
(3) Before any such applicant is permitted to take the driver's test, such applicant shall (A) provide an affidavit to the commissioner, signed under penalty of false statement, by an official of the driver's school, high school or other secondary school by which such course was conducted, that a parent or guardian attended the two hours of instruction required by subsection (a) of this section with such applicant, or (B) provide an affidavit to the commissioner, signed under penalty of false statement, by such parent or guardian, that such parent or guardian attended the two hours of instruction required by subsection (a) of this section with another applicant not more than three years prior to the date that such affidavit is provided to the commissioner.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2017 14-36j
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2017
14-36j
TRA Joint Favorable
TRA
Joint Favorable