1. Each course of training provided by a school for training drivers licensed pursuant to NRS 483.700 to 483.780, inclusive, must include, without limitation, instruction in:

(a) Motor vehicle insurance.

(b) The effect of drugs and alcohol on an operator of a motor vehicle.

2. If a course of training provided by a school for training drivers licensed pursuant to NRS 483.700 to 483.780, inclusive, consists in whole or in part of classroom instruction, that part of the course which consists of classroom instruction may be taught interactively through the use of communications technology so that persons taking the course need not be physically present in a classroom.

3. The Department shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of subsection 2. The regulations must include, without limitation:

(a) Provisions for the licensing and operation of interactive courses that use communications technology;

(b) Provisions to ensure that interactive courses which use communications technology are secure, reliable and include measures for testing and security that are at least as secure as the measures for testing and security which would be available in an ordinary classroom; and

(c) Standards to ensure that interactive courses which use communications technology offer a curriculum that is at least as stringent as the curriculum which would be available in an ordinary classroom.

4. As used in this section, “communications technology” means any method or component, or both, that is used by a school for training drivers licensed pursuant to NRS 483.700 to 483.780, inclusive, to carry out or facilitate the transmission of information, including, without limitation, the transmission and reception of information by:

(a) Systems based on the following technologies:

(1) Video;

(2) Wire;

(3) Cable;

(4) Radio;

(5) Microwave;

(6) Light; or

(7) Optics; and

(b) Computer data networks, including, without limitation, the Internet or its successor, if any, and intranet services.

(Added to NRS by 1995, 1748; A 1997, 1524; 2001 Special Session, 273)