SF 27 (LSB 1101XS (2) 91)

SENATE FILE 27

BY  KLIMESH

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to required information in the electronic database used by the department of transportation and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver’s license information.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  321.491A  Driver improvement information.
   The department shall include in the electronic database used by the department and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver’s license information, details indicating whether a driver has been required by the department or ordered by a court to complete remedial driver improvement action, including any driver improvement education course, following an arrest, citation, conviction, or accident, and if so, whether the driver completed the action.
    Sec. 2.  Section 602.8102, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  52.  If a person is ordered to complete remedial driver improvement action, including any driver improvement education course, the clerk shall forward a copy of the order to the department of transportation within ten days of the order. The clerk shall notify the department of transportation that the person completed such action within ten days of receiving confirmation that the person completed the action.
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 the department of transportation (DOT) to include in the electronic database used by the DOT and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver’s license information, details indicating whether a driver has been required to take or has completed remedial driver improvement action, including a driver improvement education course. The bill also requires the clerk of the district court to notify the DOT within 10 days after a person is ordered by a court to complete remedial driver improvement action, including a driver improvement education course, and within 10 days after the person completes the action.
   Under current law and administrative rules adopted by the DOT, the DOT must require remedial driver improvement action when a person holding an instruction permit, intermediate license, or full-privilege driver’s license under Code section 321.180B is convicted of a moving violation or has a contributive accident, and the violation or accident occurred during the term of the instruction permit or intermediate license. In addition, the DOT may require a driver to complete a driver improvement program in lieu of driver’s license suspension under certain circumstances. A court has discretion to order a person to complete a remedial driver improvement program, including by approving the program as a condition of probation in accordance with Code section 907.6.