Bill Text: IA SF196 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act allowing a person convicted of a school bus safety violation for the first time to participate in a driver improvement program in lieu of driver's license suspension, and including effective date provisions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-12 - Subcommittee, Dvorsky, Kapucian, and McCoy. S.J. 293. [SF196 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF196-Introduced.html

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Senate File 196 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  KAPUCIAN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act allowing a person convicted of a school bus safety
  2    violation for the first time to participate in a driver
  3    improvement program in lieu of driver's license suspension,
  4    and including effective date provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  SCHOOL BUS SAFETY VIOLATIONS ==== DRIVER
  1  2 IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM OPTION FOR FIRST OFFENSE.  Notwithstanding
  1  3 2012 Iowa Acts, chapter 1015, section 5, subsection 2, by
  1  4 July 1, 2015, the department of transportation shall initiate
  1  5 rulemaking to amend 761 IAC 615.43 to include a person who
  1  6 is convicted of violating section 321.372, subsection 3, for
  1  7 the first time among the persons who may be required, in lieu
  1  8 of driver's license suspension, to attend and successfully
  1  9 complete, at the person's own expense, a driver improvement
  1 10 program approved by the department, subject to all other
  1 11 provisions of 761 IAC 615.43.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 13 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 17    Current rules provide that the department of transportation
  1 18 (DOT) may require certain persons to participate in a driver
  1 19 improvement program in lieu of driver's license suspension.
  1 20 This bill requires the DOT to initiate rulemaking to include
  1 21 persons convicted of a school bus safety violation for the
  1 22 first time on the list of persons eligible to participate in
  1 23 a driver improvement program.
  1 24    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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