New York S 344: Requires that academic credit toward a high school diploma be given for practical experience gained outside of school during high school

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S00344 Summary:

BILL NOS00344B

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SAME ASSAME AS A04901-B

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSRRYAN C, SKOUFIS, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 34-E §§1290 - 1298, §§383-a & 301-c, V & T L

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Provides that a person may operate a fully autonomous vehicle on the public roads of this state without a human driver provided that the automated driving system is engaged and the vehicle meets certain conditions; defines terms; requires insurance and that such vehicle is registered as a fully autonomous vehicle; makes related provisions.

Go to top S00344 Actions:

BILL NOS00344B

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

03/03/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

03/03/2025PRINT NUMBER 344A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

05/06/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

05/06/2026PRINT NUMBER 344B

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 344--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COONEY, C. RYAN, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
 portation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the
 Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
 and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to autonomous
 vehicle driving

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 article 34-E to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 34-E
 4 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DRIVING
 5 Section 1290. Definitions.
 6 1291. Operation of fully autonomous vehicles without a human
 7 driver.
 8 1292. Licensing.
 9 1293. Insurance.
 10 1294. Duties following crashes involving fully autonomous vehi-
 11 cles.
 12 1295. On-demand autonomous vehicle network.
 13 1296. Registration and title.
 14 1297. Controlling authority.
 15 1298. Operation of a motor vehicle with an automated driving
 16 system by a human driver.
 17 § 1290. Definitions. For purposes of this article the following terms
 18 shall have the following meanings:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00929-13-6

 S. 344--B 2

 1 1. "Automated driving system" shall mean the hardware and software
 2 that are collectively capable of performing the entire dynamic driving
 3 task on a sustained basis, regardless of whether it is limited to a
 4 specific operational design domain;
 5 2. "Dynamic driving task or DDT" shall mean all of the real-time oper-
 6 ational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road
 7 traffic, excluding the strategic functions such as trip scheduling and
 8 selection of destinations and waypoints, and including without limita-
 9 tion: lateral vehicle motion control via steering, longitudinal motion
 10 control via acceleration and deceleration, monitoring the driving envi-
 11 ronment via object and event detection, recognition, classification, and
 12 response preparation, object and event response execution, maneuver
 13 planning; and enhancing conspicuity via lighting, signaling, and gestur-
 14 ing;
 15 3. "DDT Fallback" shall mean the response by the person or human driv-
 16 er to either perform the DDT or achieve a minimal risk condition after
 17 occurrence of a DDT performance-relevant system failure or failures or
 18 upon operational design domain exit, or the response by an automated
 19 driving system to achieve minimal risk condition, given the same circum-
 20 stances;
 21 4. "Fully autonomous vehicle" shall mean a motor vehicle:
 22 (a) with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand
 23 pounds or less;
 24 (b) equipped with an automated driving system designed to function
 25 without a human driver and where lateral vehicle motion control via
 26 steering, longitudinal motion control via