BILL NUMBER: AB 846	CHAPTERED  09/22/05

	CHAPTER  314
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 16, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Liu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2005

   An act to repeal and add Section 51220.6 of the Education Code,
relating to driver education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 846, Liu  Driver education: Internet: private secondary
schools.
   Existing law does not provide by statute the course requirements
of an automobile driver education course offered by a private
secondary school. Existing law provides that the satisfactory
completion of a course in automobile driver education offered by such
a school satisfies specified driver education instructional
requirements, under specified conditions.
    This bill would revise and recast those provisions and would
instead provide that the satisfactory completion of an
Internet-based, correspondence, or other distance-learning course
offered by a private secondary school meets those instructional
requirements. The bill would set forth additional automobile driver
education course requirements for those private schools that offer
that course and would specify other requirements.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 51220.6 of the Education Code is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 51220.6 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   51220.6.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
private school is not required to offer courses in driver education
or driver training.
   (b) This section shall not be construed to require a private
school to offer automobile driver education that meets the
requirements of this chapter unless the private school requests the
Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a certificate of satisfactory
completion form.
   (c) For purposes of subdivision (j) of Section 51220, Section
51220.1, and subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of
Section 12814.6 of the Vehicle Code, the satisfactory completion by a
pupil of an Internet-based, correspondence, or other
distance-learning course in automobile driver education offered by a
private secondary school satisfies the driver education instructional
requirements of those provisions and the Department of Motor
Vehicles shall issue certificates of satisfactory completion forms if
all of the following conditions are met:
   (1) The private secondary school has a current affidavit or
statement on file in compliance with Section 33190.
   (2) The private secondary school utilizes the Department of Motor
Vehicles' driver education curriculum developed under subdivision (f)
of former Section 12814.8 of the Vehicle Code for providing the
automobile driver education course, or the private school certifies
to the Department of Motor Vehicles that the curriculum used is
educationally equivalent to the Department of Motor Vehicles'
curriculum.
   (3) All certificates issued to a private school by the Department
of Motor Vehicles shall remain under the exclusive control of that
school. A school shall only issue a certificate to a student who is
enrolled in the private school, and has successfully completed a
driver education course offered by that school.
   (4) All course curriculums contain the school name, school
address, and telephone number.
   (5) Internet web pages or CD courses are reasonably secure and
protected from unauthorized access, modifications, or extraction of
confidential data.
   (6) Test questions for Internet and CD courses are secured and
randomly extracted to safeguard from copying.