Bill Text: AZ HB2265 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered
Bill Title: Defensive driving schools; course requirements
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Chapter 287 [HB2265 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2019-HB2265-Chaptered.html
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Senate Engrossed House Bill |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019
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CHAPTER 287
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HOUSE BILL 2265 |
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AN ACT
amending section 28-3395, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to defensive driving schools.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 28-3395, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
28-3395. Supreme court authority and duties; rules; record
A. The supreme court may contract with a public or private agency that does not provide defensive driving schools in this state pursuant to this article to provide assistance in carrying out the duties of this article.
B. The supreme court shall:
1. Supervise the use of defensive driving schools by the courts in this state.
2. Make public the amount of the court diversion fee assessed by each court in this state pursuant to this article and the total cost to attend a defensive driving school in each court.
3. Establish an automated statewide database for keeping a record of persons who attend a defensive driving school.
4. Adopt rules that establish criteria for the certification of qualified defensive driving schools and instructors used by the courts.
5. Establish procedures for courts and schools to remit reports that are required by the supreme court.
6. Certify and monitor defensive driving schools and instructors that serve as a court authorized diversion program.
7. Require that a defensive driving school class not exceed a total of four and one-half hours, including any testing, reviewing and grading related to the defensive driving school class.
8. Require EACH defensive driving school TO SUBMIT TO THE supreme COURT the school's future schedule of classroom defensive driving courses, including the dates, start and end times, instructors' names and location for each course. Each scheduled defensive driving school class shall admit only students who are registered with that school. A defensive driving school certified instructor may not teach or facilitate a defensive driving school class for more than one certified defensive driving school during the same class instruction time period. A course's date, time and location may not be changed or canceled except for extraordinary circumstances.
C. The information contained in the database required by this section is not a public record.
Sec. 2. Defensive driving schools; efficacy study and rule changes prohibited
Notwithstanding any other law, the supreme court may not conduct an efficacy study or adopt or amend any rules relating to defensive driving schools that are regulated pursuant to title 28, chapter 8, article 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, until from and after June 30, 2020 unless the administrative director of the supreme court determines an emergency exists that necessitates an immediate adoption or amendment of a rule.
APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR JUNE 7, 2019.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 7, 2019.
