SB770: Driver improvement clinics; increases fee that clinics may charge for courses.

SENATE BILL NO. 770

Offered January 9, 2013
Prefiled December 18, 2012
A BILL to amend and reenact 46.2-502 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees for driver improvement clinics.
Patron-- Wagner

Referred to Committee on Transportation

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.