HF 552 (LSB 2515HV (1) 87)

HOUSE FILE 552

BY  COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

(SUCCESSOR TO HF 392)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the length of approved driver education courses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.178, subsection 1, paragraph a, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   An approved driver education course as programmed by the department shall consist of at least thirty clock hours of classroom instruction, of which no more than one hundred eighty minutes shall be provided to a student in a single day, and six or more clock hours of laboratory instruction of which at least three clock hours shall consist of street or highway driving.  An approved driver education course shall last not less than three weeks, and the required clock hours of classroom and laboratory instruction shall be distributed in equal amounts, or as equal as practicable, among all weeks of the course. Classroom instruction shall include all of the following:
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill requires approved driver education courses to last not less than three weeks, and requires the clock hours of classroom and laboratory instruction to be distributed in equal amounts, or as equal as practicable, among all weeks of the course.