Senate Bill sb1632

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1632

    By Senator Smith





    14-781-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to DUI programs; amending s.

  3         322.292, F.S.; requiring DUI classes to be

  4         taught by a certified instructor in a classroom

  5         in which the instructor and all offenders in

  6         the class are present; prohibiting any other

  7         method of instruction; providing an effective

  8         date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (4) is added to section 322.292,

13  Florida Statutes, to read:

14         322.292  DUI programs supervision; powers and duties of

15  the department.--

16         (4)  DUI education courses must be conducted by a

17  certified DUI instructor in a classroom with face-to-face

18  instruction and must provide for interaction in the classroom

19  among offenders and the instructor. Courses may not be

20  conducted via the Internet, remote electronic technology, home

21  study, distance learning, or any other method in which the

22  instructor and all offenders are not physically present in the

23  same classroom.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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27                          SENATE SUMMARY

28    Requires DUI courses to be conducted by a certified
      instructor in a classroom in which the instructor and all
29    offenders are present.

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