WHB/3/4
Sponsored by Henry Casey, Elizabeth Coens, Rose Marie Downing of West High School
This legislation was filed in the Education category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT |
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| 3 | Section One: Terms in this act will be defined as follows: |
| 4 | Drivers Education Course: A course designed to teach unlicensed students who are learning to |
| 5 | drive that consists of three instructional phases: classroom learning, car inspections, and on-street |
| 6 | driving instructional time. |
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| 8 | Section Two: All public high schools throughout the state of Tennessee must offer a driver’s |
| 9 | education course to their students. |
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| 11 | Section Three: To pass the course, students must complete all three of its instructional phases and |
| 12 | show proficiency in each phase. Proficiency will be shown in the following ways: |
| 13 | Classroom learning: Students pass a 40-question multiple choice exam, given to them at the end |
| 14 | of the course, with a 70% or higher |
| 15 | Car inspections: Students can accurately label a diagram that displays various parts of a car found |
| 16 | inside the hood of a car. |
| 17 | On-street driving instructional time: Students will be able to complete a 15-minute drive with their |
| 18 | teacher and must make 2 right turns, an unprotected left turn, yield, stop at all stop signs, merge |
| 19 | into another lane at least once, and an off-road recovery test if needed. |
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| 21 | Section Four: Before participating in the on-street driving instruction, students must show proof |
| 22 | that they have a learner’s permit. |
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| 24 | Section Five: The aforementioned sections will be enforced and regulated by the Tennessee State |
| 25 | Legislature and then further authoritative policies and regulations will be operating under the |
| 26 | Tennessee Department of Education. |
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| 28 | Section Six: The necessary cost to fund this bill is $11,459,774 and it will be funded through the |
| 29 | Tennessee Department of Education. The government will need to refer to a bidding process for |
| 30 | this. |
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| 32 | Section Seven: All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed. |
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| 34 | Section Eight: This act shall take into effect in the upcoming 2024 fall semester at all Tennessee |
| 35 | public high schools, the public welfare requiring it. |
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