BMV student driver education program bill now PL 17-45

Gov. Benigno R. Fitial announced yesterday that a bill authorizing the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to establish a student driver education program is now Public Law 17-45, after the House and Senate overrode his veto of the measure.

Fitial assigned the public law number three days after the Senate followed the House’s override of the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 17-20, Senate Draft 1, House Substitute 1, House Draft 2, Senate Draft 2.

The governor disapproved the bill mainly because BMV “is neither ready nor equipped to establish a driver’s education program at this point.”

But House and Senate members, in overriding the governor’s veto, said families find it hard to come up with $350 to pay for a driver’s education program offered by a private business on Saipan.