"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that a number of cities and counties in the state of Washington establish traffic schools. A court in a county that has established a traffic school may order an individual to attend the school as part of a sentence for the conviction of a traffic violation or as a condition on the suspension or deferral of a sentence. The legislature recognizes that since driver's education programs have only recently been required to provide information about how to drive safely among bicyclists and pedestrians, many licensed drivers do not have knowledge about such safe driving practices. In order to increase such knowledge and to avoid unnecessary injuries, fatalities, and conflicts, the legislature believes that it is appropriate to include bicycle and pedestrian curriculum approved by the department of licensing for traffic schools or to new drivers as part of the curriculum of traffic schools. Curriculum materials, which are donated by bicycle organizations without state expense, are available from the department of licensing and posted on the department's web site.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   A new section is added to chapter 46.83 RCW to read as follows:
     A traffic school established under this chapter shall include, as part of its curriculum on rules of the road, the curriculum for driving safely among bicyclists and pedestrians that has been approved by the department for driver training schools or traffic schools. This curriculum requirement must not exceed thirty minutes of the class or course."