HB 1162 – AS INTRODUCED

2008 SESSION

08-2221

03/01

HOUSE BILL 1162

AN ACT relative to supervised driving time by persons completing driver education.

SPONSORS: Rep. L. Ober, Hills 27; Rep. Packard, Rock 3

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill increases the hours of supervised driving time required to complete driver education and adds a requirement that 10 of those hours be at night.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

08-2221

03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight

AN ACT relative to supervised driving time by persons completing driver education.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Driver Education; Supervised Driving Time. Amend RSA 263:19, II to read as follows:

II. To qualify for a driver's license under this section, a person under the age of 18 shall also certify the completion of [20] 40 hours of additional supervised driving time under the supervision of a licensed parent or guardian, or, if there is no licensed parent or guardian, under the supervision of a licensed adult over the age of 25, and that at least 10 of the hours of additional supervised driving time were during the period from 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise. The commissioner shall adopt rules relative to the method of certification.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.