The first state to have a Bicycle Friendly Driver program was Colorado. When I saw that back in 2017, I was in touch with Bicycle Colorado, the organization that put it together, to watch the program. They shared it so it could be replicated, and because state laws vary, and laws are referenced in the program, it needed to be revised by each state that wanted to copy it.
There is a Maine Bicycle Friendly Driver presentation that I've shown at Maine Driver Instructor conferences. Some instructors were interested and have incorporated it in their programs, but it is not required. So it's only some new drivers who may be learning friendly driver info, but as Maya stated, a lot of the current bike/ped infrastructure designs and some newer bike/ped laws many drivers never learned and still don't know.
The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles has been open to adding new bike ped info into the Maine Drivers Manual. They added the Dutch Reach when BCM asked them to a couple years ago. (instead of explaining that for those who don't know, here's
this video) And recently I looked through the Maine drivers manual and saw that it doesn't have sharrows in the Pavement Markings section, nor does it have May Use Full Lane in the traffic sign section.
As soon as I contacted them to point that out, they responded that they will incorporate them when they reprint the manuals which is every few years.
It would be good to have a bill that requires the monitoring of transportation laws and ways to get that information out to the public – like what this email chain is about, maybe requiring more frequent drivers tests. Especially since the state is going to have an Active Transportation Plan, drivers need to know what people outside of cars are allowed to do and how to drive in a friendly way with them.
Maine's Hand-Free Driving law wasn't passed until 2019. All the weight of that was put on law enforcement versus new education for drivers. So this is a good discussion!