Section 37-25-29 - Driver education program to include instruction in how a person should properly respond when stopped by law enforcement officers; curriculum to include drivers' constitutional rights

(1) The Department of Public Safety shall develop a program of study on how persons should properly respond when stopped by law enforcement officers to be taught to students as part of the state driver education and training program and as part of a driver education program taught to students attending nonpublic schools.(2) Any program developed by the Department of Public Safety under this section shall incorporate in that curriculum the constitutional rights that drivers have when encountering a law enforcement officer, including, but not limited to, consent to search and refusal to provide information not pertinent to the traffic stop.Added by Laws, 2017, ch. 430, HB 907, 10, eff. 7/1/2017.