Bill Text: IA HF138 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to approved driver education courses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-31 - Subcommittee: Carlin, Hanson and Wheeler. H.J. 167. [HF138 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-HF138-Introduced.html
House File 138 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY R. TAYLOR A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to approved driver education courses. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 2138YH (1) 87 kh/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, nor 1 8 more than three hundred minutes per week unless additional 1 9 time is needed to make up a class due to a student's excused 1 10 absence or class cancellation; and six or more clock hours of 1 11 laboratory instruction of which at least three clock hours 1 12 shall consist of street or highway driving. Street or highway 1 13 driving instruction shall be limited to not more than thirty 1 14 minutes per student per week and no more than two students may 1 15 be present in the vehicle during street or highway driving 1 16 instruction. Classroom instruction shall include all of the 1 17 following: 1 18 EXPLANATION 1 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 20 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 21 This bill limits the number of minutes per week of classroom 1 22 and street or highway driver education instruction that may be 1 23 provided to a student per week in an approved driver education 1 24 course. 1 25 The bill limits classroom instruction time to no more than 1 26 300 minutes per week unless additional time is needed to make 1 27 up a class due to an excused absence or class cancellation, and 1 28 limits street or highway driving instruction to not more than 1 29 30 minutes per student per week. The bill also provides that 1 30 no more than two students may be present in the vehicle during 1 31 street or highway driving instruction. 1 32 The current approved course requirements of 30 total clock 1 33 hours of classroom instruction and three total hours of street 1 34 or highway driving remain unchanged. LSB 2138YH (1) 87 kh/nh
