BILL NUMBER: AB 1403	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Eng

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1403, as introduced, Eng. Vehicles: traffic violator school.
   Existing law authorizes a court, in lieu of adjudicating a traffic
offense committed by a person who holds one of specified types of
driver's licenses, with the defendant's consent, to order the person
to attend a licensed traffic violator school, licensed driving
school, or other court-approved program of driving instruction.
   This bill would state the Legislature's intent to enact
legislation to revise the process for dismissal of charges for a
traffic offense in exchange for a person's attendance at a traffic
violator school, in order to prevent high-risk drivers from
completing traffic safety instruction multiple times to avoid
convictions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature intends to enact legislation to revise
the process for dismissal of charges for a traffic offense in
exchange for a person's attendance at a traffic violator school, in
order to prevent high-risk drivers from completing traffic safety
instruction multiple times to avoid convictions.