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A new law going into effect September 1st will likely grow the
need for defensive driving
online courses in addition to onsite classes and defensive
driving video rentings & will increase the amount of road tests
distributed by the State Department of Public Safety.

Beginning Sept. 1st 2005, a drivers safety course will be
expected for 100% automobile operators under age 25 that
encounter a ticket for a moving ticket such as speeding if they
want to keep it off their record. This isn’t new in that many
cities and county already have this requirement. However, many
judges in these counties dismiss the class requirement typically
in exchange for provisional period in which, if the driver stays
clean of any further Fines, the original ticket is pushed aside.
Usually this arrangement normally also packs a fee to the
municipality in addition to the probationary period.

Authored by Dallas Republican John Carona & introduced as Senate
Bill 1005, this new law is even stricter for those under
eighteen. Drivers through the age of Seventeen will be involved
to take a road end line text with the Texas Dept. of Public
Safety in addition to the fine and probation if they want to
keep their records clean.

Those with much of experience with picking up citations will not
be happy with this law as it closes down a loophole. Ahead of
this law judges were allowed to exempt motor vehicle operators
under the age of twenty-five who received a traffic violation
from a Drivers
Education Class. Some lawmakers were worried about teens,
specially those who were taught to drive by their parents versus
texas endorsed instructors. To uRL this concern, they amended
the road end line text requirement for those under eighteen.

Prior to 9/1/05, there were two sections that relate to deferred
adjudication of infractions. This only means that if a driver
pleaded “no contest” to the traffic divisions & then did not
break any other traffic laws for a time period set by the court,
the violation would be effaced from the driver’s criminal
record. One segment of the law specifically treats traffic
treats indicating that a traffic lawbreaker must take an online defensive
driving course or attend an guide defensive driving school
or course in order to have a ticket removed from their record.
Misdemeanors are covered in the other section of law allowing
judges to define the standard to be reached for “deferred
adjudication”. Deferred adjudication means: the driver is placed
on probation for a length of time and if driver stays citation
free during this period, the original traffic citation is erased
from their record. Deferred adjudication, in addition to the
probationary period, usually incurs a fine to the district in
which the ticket occurred. In many jurisdictions, this second
section of the lay has allowed ticket to simply fine motor
vehicle operators as long as they didn’t get an additional
citation for some period of time like 6 months.

For operators under the age of 25, Texas law SB 1005 eliminates
that flexibility & in fact requires those who receive traffic
citations and are under 25 to a take defensive driving
online or in classroom setting.

The Texas Dept. of Public Safety indicated that an estimated
21,000 teens will take the road end line text each year. All
state driver’s license offices are gearing up to have officers
available to conduct more of these tests. DPS spokeswoman Tela
Mange stated that these offices already conduct road screenings
now however as this road test has not been required to obtain a
driver’s license for more than decade, most teens don’t take it
so more officers will need to be available at every Dept. of
Public Safety faciltiy. Those that do are usually at the request
of their parents. Fortunately for the usually cash strapped
young motor vehicle operators, the road trial will only tack on
another $10 to their already costly traffic citation experience.

This new law will likely improve the demand for defensive driving
online classes in addition to onsite classes and defensive
driving video rentals.