WHB/4/7
Sponsored by Emmet Coin, Alex Montoya of Page High School
This legislation was filed in the Safety and Homeland Security 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 1: Terms in this act will be defined as follows: |
| 4 | Intermediate Restricted Driver’s License - Preliminary restricted license issued to a 16 y/o on |
| 5 | passage to the Road exam. Will be shortened to IRDL. |
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| 7 | Section 2: Learner’s Permit exams must be completed in person at the applicant’s local DMV or, if |
| 8 | online, must be monitored with a remote online proctoring system to avoid cheating and promote |
| 9 | applicants' road knowledge. |
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| 11 | Section 3: In between completing one’s Learner’s Permit exam and Road exam, applicants must |
| 12 | complete a required instructional Driver Education Course. This can either be completed through |
| 13 | an approved commercial driving school or an extracurricular high school program that will follow a |
| 14 | standardized curriculum as developed by a group of professionals in this field. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Section 4: Establish a baseline rubric with a minimum time and key checkpoints that specifically |
| 17 | include parallel parking, merging lanes, and emergency stops on all IRDL Road exams. These will |
| 18 | be priority categories on a rubric developed by professionals in the field. This rubric will also be |
| 19 | rigorous to prevent any corrupt drivers from taking the roads and causing harm to others. |
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| 21 | Section 5: These changes will be added in addition to the current IRDL requirements so far as |
| 22 | those requirements do not contradict these new ones. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Section 6: The addition of these clauses will cost $17,800,000 and will be funded through the |
| 25 | budget Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security. |
| 26 | $10,000,000 will go towards the educators. |
| 27 | $7,800,000 will go towards the education curriculum for high schools to develop. |
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| 29 | Section 7: All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed. |
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| 31 | Section 8: The development of this act shall take effect May 1st, 2025, and the release of this |
| 32 | curriculum for students will be accessible August 1st, 2025, the public welfare requiring it. |
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