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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 437 Original 2017 Regular Session White
Abstract: Creates an alternative method of instruction for all or part of the classroom instruction
portion of an approved prelicensing training course.
Present law specifies that no application for a license for the operation of a motor vehicle can be
received from any person making application for the first time unless there is also submitted with
the application, on a form approved by the secretary of the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections,
public safety services, written evidence of the successful completion by the applicant of a driver
education course or a prelicensing training course.
Proposed law authorizes a driver education provider to provide all or part of the classroom
instruction portion of an approved prelicensing training course by an alternative method of
instruction that does not require students to be present in a traditional classroom, subject to approval
by the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety services.
Proposed law authorizes the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety services to approve
the alternative method if it includes testing and security measures that are at least as secure as the
measures available in the traditional classroom setting and use of the alternative method satisfies any
other requirement applicable to a prelicensing training course taught in the traditional classroom
setting.
Proposed law authorizes the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety services, to
establish rules and regulations necessary to define the requirements for alternative methods of
instruction for prelicensing training courses.
(Adds R.S. 32:402.1(B))