SB770: Driver improvement clinics; increases fee that clinics may charge for courses.
SENATE BILL NO. 770
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That 46.2-502 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
46.2-502. Clinic fees.
A. The Department and all businesses, organizations,
governmental entities or individuals certified by the Department to provide
driver improvement clinic instruction may charge a fee not to exceed seventy-five dollars $100, which shall include the
processing fee set forth in subsection B of this section, to persons notified
by the Department to attend a driver improvement clinic. No person shall be
permitted to attend a driver improvement clinic unless the person first pays
the required attendance fee to the business, organization, governmental entity
or individual providing the driver improvement clinic instruction.
B. All businesses, organizations, governmental entities or
individuals certified by the Department to provide driver improvement clinic
instruction shall collect for the Department a processing fee of ten dollars $10 from each person attending
a driver improvement clinic taught by such businesses, organizations,
governmental entities or individuals. Such processing fee payments shall
accompany the clinic rosters submitted to the Department by such businesses,
organizations, governmental entities or individuals. No such processing fee,
however, shall be required or collected from members of volunteer rescue squads
and volunteer fire departments who attend such clinics in order to successfully
complete training for emergency vehicle operation. All fees collected by the
Department under this subsection shall be paid by the Commissioner into the
state treasury and shall be set aside as a special fund to be used to meet the
expenses of the Department.