First, the good news: Florida State Statute (F.S.S.) 322.0261(4) requires the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to mail notices to drivers who must take traffic school pursuant to that section. If adjudication is withheld for any offense requiring traffic school, the traffic school requirement shall be waived, unless specifically ordered by the court. However, drivers convicted of passing a school bus in violation of F.S.S. 316.172 must complete a traffic school course even if adjudication of guilt is withheld.
The bad news (for traffic school providers—and motorists) is that F.S.S. 381.14(9) limits the numbers of times that drivers may elect to take traffic school in order to remove points from their records to no more than five attendances in a lifetime.
Other changes related to legislative updates will take effect on Sep. 1 (and a few on Oct. 1). Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., will be updating its approved curricula and will provide you with more information closer to that time.
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FLS 318.14 posted 12/11/2008: a person may make no more than five traffic school elections within ten (10) years. The 10 year window is a sliding one that starts when the student makes the first election. On the 10 year anniversary of the first election, it is removed and the student is eligible for five more elections. For more info visit http://www.flhsmv.gov/ddl/comschool.html
I'm seeing that in the online reference of the Florida Statutes as well. However, that is the OLD information. According to a letter from the DHSMV, dated 6/9/10, FLS 318.14(9) has been modified, effective 7/1/10, to limit the number of elective traffic school attendances to five in a lifetime.
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