2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 32 Motor vehicles and traffic regulation :: RS 32:402.2 Driver improvement program for remediation

§402.2.  Driver improvement program for remediation

The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles, may approve court-ordered driver remediation courses or programs, in the same manner as "prelicensing training courses" are approved in R.S. 32:402.1(A)(2).  All such approved driver remediation courses or programs shall include instruction on railroad grade crossing safety and on sharing the road with motorcycles and tractor/trailer trucks and at least thirty minutes of instruction relative to organ and tissue donation.  The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state Department of Education shall develop the organ and tissue donation portion of the driver education and training program in conjunction with the federally designated organ procurement organization for the state of Louisiana.  However, no student shall be required to take the organ and tissue donation instruction if he, or his parent or tutor if the student is a minor, submits a written statement indicating that such instruction conflicts with his religious beliefs.  The department shall compile and maintain a list of all department-approved courses which shall be delivered to all persons who are decreed by a court to be traffic violators and who are ordered by a court to attend a driver improvement course for remediation purposes.  The court shall allow a violator to select a course within the judicial district in which he resides if there is no court-approved driving course in such district provided that it is one of the courses on the department-approved list.

Acts 1997, No. 1336, §2; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 82, §2; Acts 2003, No. 312, §2; Acts 2004, No. 216, §2.