Text: HF02163 Text: HF02165 Text: HF02100 - HF02199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.178, subsection 1, unnumbered 1 2 paragraphs 3 and 4, Code Supplement 2001, are amended to read 1 3 as follows: 1 4 Every public school district in Iowa shall offer or make 1 5 available to all studentsresiding in the school district or1 6Iowa students attending a nonpublic school in the districtan 1 7 approved course in driver education. The courses may be 1 8 offered at sites other than at the public school, including 1 9 nonpublic school facilities within the public school 1 10 districts. An approved course offered during the summer 1 11 months, on Saturdays, after regular school hours during the 1 12 regular terms or partly in one term or summer vacation period 1 13 and partly in the succeeding term or summer vacation period, 1 14 as the case may be, shall satisfy the requirements of this 1 15 section to the same extent as an approved course offered 1 16 during the regular school hours of the school term. A student 1 17 who successfully completes and obtains certification in an 1 18 approved course in driver education or an approved course in 1 19 motorcycle education may, upon proof of such fact, be excused 1 20 from any field test which the student would otherwise be 1 21 required to take in demonstrating the student's ability to 1 22 operate a motor vehicle. A student shall not be excused from 1 23 any field test if a parent, guardian, or instructor requests 1 24 that a test be administered. Street or highway driving 1 25 instruction may be provided by a person qualified as a 1 26 classroom driver education instructor or a person certified by 1 27 the department of transportation and authorized by the board 1 28 of educational examiners. A person shall not be required to 1 29 hold a current Iowa teacher or administrator license at the 1 30 elementary or secondary level or to have satisfied the 1 31 educational requirements for an Iowa teacher license at the 1 32 elementary or secondary level in order to be certified by the 1 33 department of transportation or authorized by the board of 1 34 educational examiners to provide street or highway driving 1 35 instruction. A final field test prior to a student's 2 1 completion of an approved course shall be administered by a 2 2 person qualified as a classroom driver education instructor. 2 3 The department of transportation shall adopt rules pursuant to 2 4 chapter 17A to provide for certification of persons qualified 2 5 to provide street or highway driving instruction. The board 2 6 of educational examiners shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 2 7 17A to provide for authorization of persons certified by the 2 8 department of transportation to provide street or highway 2 9 driving instruction. 2 10 "Student", for purposes of this section, means a person 2 11 between the ages of fourteen years and twenty-one yearswho2 12resides in the public school district andwho satisfies the 2 13 preliminary licensing requirements of the department of 2 14 transportation. 2 15 EXPLANATION 2 16 This bill expands the requirement of a school district to 2 17 offer or make available a driver education course by modifying 2 18 the definition of "student" to include both students residing 2 19 in the district and those not residing in the district. 2 20 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 2 21 section 25B.3. 2 22 LSB 6216YH 79 2 23 av/sh/8
Text: HF02163 Text: HF02165 Text: HF02100 - HF02199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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