Report Title:

Driver Education Programs; Mandatory; Appropriation

Description:

Requires driver education programs to be established at each public high school. Mandates parental consent for enrollment in program for minors. Appropriates funds for the programs.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

702

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to driver education.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 302A-413, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§302A-413[]] Driver education. (a) The department [may] shall establish and administer a motor vehicle driver education and training program to be conducted at each public high school in the State.

(b) The department, for the purpose of this section, shall:

(1) Set the prerequisites and priorities for enrollment in the course of driver education and training, which shall be open to every resident of the State who is fifteen years of age or older and under nineteen years of age; provided that the department shall not enroll a student under the age of eighteen years in the course of driver education and training without the consent of the student's parents or guardian;

(2) Establish the requirements for and employ necessary instructors, who are certified to have completed satisfactorily an approved instructor's course, to conduct the course in driver education and training;

(3) Issue a certificate of completion to every student upon satisfactory completion of the course in driver education and training;

(4) Purchase, rent, or acquire by gift, materials and equipment necessary for the program established by this section; and

(5) Cooperate with the chief of police in each county in promoting traffic safety.

(c) The department [may] shall adopt rules under chapter 91, necessary for the purposes of this section and section 302A-414."

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, for the establishment and administration of driver education programs at each public high school as mandated by section 302A-413, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

SECTION 3. The sums appropriated in section 2 shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon approval; provided that section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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