New California Laws for 2015

A new year brings new traffic laws to California. Several new laws will take effect in 2015. As a provider of traffic violator school (TVS) instruction, you should familiarize yourself with these changes so you can provide the proper education and assistance to your students.

Internet Curriculum Update

As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) has already updated the Internet-based curriculum, and your students are using it now. You need to do nothing further.

Classroom Curriculum Update

Those of you who are delivering classroom instruction must ensure that you are teaching students the updated curriculum. Download the electronic files from the CA Course Provider Administration website for the latest Lesson Plan updates (modified pages only), Safe Driving Journal (student and instructor versions), and final exam forms/answer keys. The files are available now, and you should begin using the updated materials immediately.

Make sure that you and/or any instructors you employ are explaining the new laws to students and distributing the latest versions of the classroom materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!

Booklet Curriculum Update

Those of you who are offering the home study booklet must ensure that you are providing students with updated curriculum materials. Download from the CA Course Provider Administration website the latest final exam forms and answer keys, available now, and begin using those immediately.

The copyright notice is at the
bottom of the Table of Contents page.

The next order of books that you receive from TSC will be the latest edition. You may continue to use "old" booklets from your inventory. However, if the bottom of the Table of Contents page of a book that you are sending to a student does not have a 2015 copyright (see example picture), you must include a "new laws insert" (available for download from the CA Course Provider Administration website) in the packet.

Make sure that you ship the latest version of the home study booklet (or include an insert) and student materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!


*** Booklet Curriculum Procedure Update ***

This year's update brings a slight change to the booklet course administration. By regulatory requirement, "Participation Questions" ("quizzes") are now presented as part of the student materials. Therefore, the student materials/procedures for booklet students have been revised as follows:

• Instruction Sheet: The instructions given to students have been expanded and, as a result, the personal identity validation box has been moved to the final page and combined with the copyright acknowledgement. Note that you will still need to personalize this form with your school's contact information.
• Participation Questions: This form is now included as pages 2 – 3 of the student materials.
• Students are to complete this form as they proceed through the course—i.e., answer the appropriate questions as they complete each chapter.
• Students must complete the participation questions and return that paperwork to the school. These questions are to be graded—answer keys are included with your new final exam answer keys, and incorrect answers should be marked as such—but the student's score on the participation questions does not impact their completion status in any way.
• The Participation Questions form is to be saved by the school, along with the other student materials that are required to be retained in students' profiles.
• Final Exam: (Exactly as before, but placed later in the student materials packet.)
• Personal Identity Validation: This information has been moved from the front page to the final page and combined with the copyright acknowledgement. As before, this must be signed by the student for them to receive credit for completing the course.

Chris or Tara will be contacting you shortly to go over the new procedures and to make sure you have the necessary files.