N.Y. Education Law § 806-a: Driver education

§ 806-a. Driver education. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of

law, all school districts providing instruction in driver education

shall include in such instruction: (a) a driver safety component with an

emphasis on the effects of alcohol and drug use, (b) instruction in

motorcycle safety awareness. The commissioner, upon approval by the

commissioner of motor vehicles, shall establish a curriculum for the

alcohol and drug education component which shall include but not be

limited to: instruction describing the hazards of driving while impaired

or intoxicated; the penalties for alcohol related motor vehicle

violations including sanctions set forth in the penal law that apply to

homicides and assaults arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle

while intoxicated and those sanctions set forth in the vehicle and

traffic law relating to driving while intoxicated; and the medical,

biological and physiological effects of the consumption of alcohol and

their impact on the operation of a motor vehicle.

2. The commissioner, upon approval of the commissioner of motor

vehicles, shall establish by regulation a certification process by

driver education courses of the amount of time a holder of a class DJ or

class MJ learner's permit has spent operating a motor vehicle while

under the immediate supervision of a driver education teacher. A

certificate issued pursuant to this subdivision shall be deemed to be

proof of all or a portion of the supervised driving experience required

under certification pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision two of

section five hundred two of the vehicle and traffic law.