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Florida Legislature· SB 994Chapter No. 2025-104

Driver License Education Requirements, the official text

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    2         An act relating to driver license education
    3         requirements; amending s. 322.095, F.S.; specifying
    4         the age at which an applicant for a driver license
    5         must complete a traffic law and substance abuse
    6         education course; amending s. 322.1615, F.S.;
    7         requiring an applicant for a learner’s driver license
    8         to complete a certain driver education course approved
    9         by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
   10         Vehicles; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 322.095, Florida
   15  Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         322.095 Traffic law and substance abuse education program
   17  for driver license applicants.—
   18         (1) Each applicant for a driver license who is 18 years of
   19  age or older must complete a traffic law and substance abuse
   20  education course, unless the applicant has been licensed in
   21  another jurisdiction or has satisfactorily completed a
   22  Department of Education driver education course offered pursuant
   23  to s. 1003.48.
   24         Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section
   25  322.1615, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   26         322.1615 Learner’s driver license.—
   27         (1) The department may issue a learner’s driver license to
   28  a person who is at least 15 years of age and who:
   29         (c) Has satisfactorily completed a driver education course
   30  approved by the department which meets or exceeds the Department
   31  of Education Driver Education/Traffic Safety-Classroom 1900300
   32  course version description [the traffic law and substance abuse]
   33  [education course prescribed in s. 322.095]; and
   34         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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