Bill Text: CT SB00406 | 2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Motor Vehicle Operator's Retraining Program.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-05 - Public Hearing 03/10 [SB00406 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-SB00406-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 406
February Session, 2010		LCO No. 1982
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
(TRA)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR'S RETRAINING PROGRAM.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 14-111g of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):

(a) For the purposes of this subsection, "moving violation" means any violation of subsection (c) of section 14-36, section 14-36g, 14-218a, 14-219, 14-222, 14-223, 14-230 to 14-249, inclusive, 14-279 or 14-289b, subsection (d) of section 14-296aa, or section 14-299, 14-301, 14-302 or 14-303, and "suspension violation" means a violation of section 14-222a or 14-224, subsection (a) of section 14-227a, or section 53a-56b, 53a-57 or 53a-60d. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may require any licensed motor vehicle operator who is twenty-four years of age or less, who has been convicted of a moving violation or a suspension violation, or both, committed on two or more occasions to attend a motor vehicle operator's retraining program. The commissioner may require any licensed motor vehicle operator over twenty-four years of age, who has been convicted of a moving violation or a suspension violation or a combination of said violations, committed on three or more occasions to attend a motor vehicle operator's retraining program. The retraining program shall (1) review principles of motor vehicle operation, (2) develop alternative attitudes for those attitudes contributing to aggressive driving behavior, and (3) emphasize the need to practice safe driving behavior. The retraining program shall be offered by the Department of Motor Vehicles or by any other organization conducting such a program certified by the commissioner. The commissioner shall notify such operator, in writing, of such requirement. A fee of not more than sixty dollars shall be charged for the retraining program. The commissioner, after notice and opportunity for hearing, may suspend the motor vehicle operator's license of any such operator who fails to attend or successfully complete the program until the operator successfully completes the program. The hearing shall be limited to any claim of impossibility of the operator to attend the retraining program, or to a determination of mistake or misidentification.

(b) Any drivers' school, as defined in section 14-68, that meets the licensure requirements of part IV of chapter 246 shall be eligible to offer the motor vehicle operator's retraining program.

[(b)] (c) The commissioner, after notification of and approval by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, may deduct and retain from the fees collected in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, an amount not to exceed ten dollars per fee, for the cost of implementing the motor vehicle retraining program established in subsection (a) of this section.

[(c)] (d) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to implement the provisions of subsections (a) and [(b)] (c) of this section.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2010	14-111g

Statement of Purpose:

To allow qualified drivers' schools to offer the motor vehicle operator's retraining program.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]