Bill Text: IA HF552 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the length of approved driver education courses. (Formerly HF 392.)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-04 - Referred to Transportation. H.J. 869. [HF552 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-HF552-Introduced.html
House File 552 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION (SUCCESSOR TO HF 392) A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the length of approved driver education 2 courses. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 2515HV (1) 87 ns/nh PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.178, subsection 1, paragraph a, 1 2 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as 1 3 follows: 1 4 An approved driver education course as programmed by the 1 5 department shall consist of at least thirty clock hours of 1 6 classroom instruction, of which no more than one hundred eighty 1 7 minutes shall be provided to a student in a single day, and six 1 8 or more clock hours of laboratory instruction of which at least 1 9 three clock hours shall consist of street or highway driving. 1 10 An approved driver education course shall last not less than 1 11 three weeks, and the required clock hours of classroom and 1 12 laboratory instruction shall be distributed in equal amounts, 1 13 or as equal as practicable, among all weeks of the course. 1 14 Classroom instruction shall include all of the following: 1 15 EXPLANATION 1 16 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 17 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 18 This bill requires approved driver education courses to 1 19 last not less than three weeks, and requires the clock hours 1 20 of classroom and laboratory instruction to be distributed in 1 21 equal amounts, or as equal as practicable, among all weeks of 1 22 the course. LSB 2515HV (1) 87 ns/nh
