SB 317 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
SENATE BILL 317
AN ACT allowing driver education correspondence courses to be accepted and approved by the department of safety.
SPONSORS: Sen. Krueger, Dist 16; Sen. Brown, Dist 17; Sen. Roberge, Dist 9; Sen. Francoeur, Dist 14
This bill allows individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 who receive driver education training through a correspondence school to qualify for driver's license examinations in the state, provided the school is licensed by the department of safety as an adequate preparatory program.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2633
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT allowing driver education correspondence courses to be accepted and approved by the department of safety.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Driver Education Correspondence Schools. 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 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 or a correspondence 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 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.
2 Department of Safety License Required to Conduct Driver Education Correspondence Courses in the State. Amend RSA 263:44 to read as follows:
263:44 License Required; Fee, Term, Renewal. No person shall engage in the business of conducting a drivers' school without being licensed therefor by the department, including driver education correspondence schools. Application therefor shall be in writing and contain such information therein as the department shall require. If the application is approved, the applicant shall be granted a license upon the payment of a fee of $200; provided, however, that no license fee shall be charged for the issuance of a license to any board of education, school board, public, private or parochial school, which conducts a course in driver education, approved by the state department of education. A license so issued shall be valid during the calendar year. The annual fee for renewal shall be $100. The department shall issue a license certificate or license certificates to each licensee, one of which shall be displayed in each place of business of the licensee. In the case of loss, mutilation or destruction of a certificate, the department shall issue a duplicate upon proof of the facts and the payment of a fee of $1.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.