BSB/1/15
Sponsored by Ivan Zheng, David Puchalski of Baylor School
This legislation was filed in the Transportation 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 shall be defined as follows: |
| 4 | a. Road Rage: the act of doing aggressive, reckless, and dangerous driving behaviors |
| 5 | b. Dashboard cameras: camera devices that serves the purpose of recording vehicle in likeliness of |
| 6 | a crash |
| 7 | c. Therapy: a form of reception of an area where one’s seeking help in |
| 8 | d. Clinic: facilities where a certain purpose is served in to help a certain person |
| 9 | e. TN DOT: Tennessee Department of Transportation |
| 10 | f. RRTC: Road Rage Therapy Clinics, sub-organization designed to help people who committed an |
| 11 | act of Road Rage |
| 12 | g. RREP: Road Rage Education and Prevention, sub section where driving students are taught |
| 13 | about the topic of Road Rage and how to avoid it |
| 14 | h. Locked box: a box in which a combination of numbers or a lock is required to open it. |
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| 16 | Section 2) To prevent recklessness, encouraged implementations of dashboard cameras |
| 17 | a. Dashboard cameras must have a tracker that tracks and records the speed of the driver |
| 18 | i. Tracker must be measured in mph |
| 19 | b. Advertisements to persuade drivers to install dashboard cameras |
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| 21 | Section 3) Required therapy for those who committed an act of road rage |
| 22 | a. Implementation of Road Rage Therapy Clinics or RRTC |
| 23 | i. RRTC will be a sub-organization off of the TN DOT |
| 24 | b. These therapy sessions should last for 1 hour at any scheduled time between 11 am and 5 pm |
| 25 | in a RRTC |
| 26 | c. Required three sessions per road rage incident |
| 27 | i. The required three sessions must be completed |
| 28 | ii. Failure to do so after a 30-day notice will add an extra session including the sessions they |
| 29 | missed as well as a 500 dollar fine |
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| 31 | Section 4) Mandatory course in driving schools about road rage and how to prevent it |
| 32 | a. Over the course of two weeks, a driving student must have four hours of driving education at a |
| 33 | Road Rage Education and Prevention or RREP. |
| 34 | i. The RREP is a will be a subsection of the Tennessee DOT that will educate student drivers on |
| 35 | how to prevent them from committing acts of road rage. |
| 36 | b. A driving student must stay for a whole class. The time is logged on their sheet by an instructor |
| 37 | from the RREP. |
| 38 | c. Failure to complete the four hours within the two weeks given will result in the prevention of a |
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| 40 | i. If the failed student wishes to obtain a drivers license, they must sign a waiver issuing their full |
| 41 | commitment to the course |
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| 43 | Section 5) In order to carry a gun in a vehicle, a person must store it in a locked box that is in the |
| 44 | backseat. |
| 45 | a. The compartment should be further than arm distance away from the driver |
| 46 | b. Preferability of one’s choice of a lock must be approved by a member of the TN DOT |
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| 48 | Section 6) This act shall be funded and enforced by TN Highway Patrol and TN DOT |
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| 50 | Section 7) All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. |
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| 52 | Section 8) This act shall take effect on January 1st 2025 |
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