HD42 - Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Effectiveness and Funding of Driver Education Programs in the Public Schools

  • Published: 1983
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee Studying the Effectiveness and Funding of Driver Education Programs in the Public Schools
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 80 (Regular Session, 1982)

Executive Summary:
The 1982 General Assembly agreed to House Joint Resolution No. 80 and appointed a subcommittee of the House Committees on Education and Appropriations, and the Senate Committees on Education and Health and Finance to study the effectiveness and funding of driver education programs in the public schools.

House Joint Resolution No. 80, which is appended to this report, requested that the joint subcommittee determine whether such programs ·are effective, whether they should be continued or dismantled, whether the behind-the-wheel requirement should be abolished, and whether such programs, if continued, should be administered and operated in the present or in some other manner.

The members of the joint subcommittee represented the House Committees on Appropriations and Education and the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health.

Delegate Alan A. Diamonstein, of Newport News, and Senator Charles J. Colgan, of Manassas. served as Chairman and Vice-Chairman, respectively.