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2008 SESSION

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HB 1245 Driver's license; certain restrictions for first-time applicants failing behind wheel three times.

Introduced by: Timothy D. Hugo | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Driver's licenses. Provides that any person who fails the behind-the-wheel or knowledge examinations for a driver's license administered by DMV three times shall not be permitted to take such examination a fourth time until he successfully completes the in-vehicle or knowledge component of driver instruction at a driver training school.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Driver's licenses.  Requires all first-time applicants for Virginia driver's licenses to prove that they have successfully completed either a driver education program approved by the State Department of Education or a course offered by a licensed driver training school and increases the minimum time required for first-time applicants over the age of 19 to hold a learner's permit from 30 days to 90 days.