INSURANCE COMMISSIONER KAREN WELDIN STEWART, CIR-ML hereby gives notice of intent to adopt amendments to Department of Insurance Regulation 607 relating to Defensive Driving Courses. The docket number for this proposed amendment is 1145.

The purpose of the proposed amendment to regulation 607 is to update the existing regulation with respect course content, requirements for course and instructor certification, on-line course attendance verification, proof of course completion and notifications to the Division of Motor Vehicles. The text of the proposed amendment is reproduced in the August 2009 edition of the Delaware Register of Regulations. The text can also be viewed at the Delaware Insurance Commissioner’s website at: http://www.delawareinsurance.gov/departments/documents/ProposedRegs/ProposedRegs.shtml.

The Department of Insurance does not plan to hold a public hearing on the proposed changes. Any person can file written comments, suggestions, briefs, compilations of data or other materials concerning the proposed amendments. Any written submission in response to this notice and relevant to the proposed changes must be received by the Department of Insurance no later than 4:00 p.m., Tuesday September 8, 2009, and should be addressed to Mitch Crane, Esquire, Delaware Department of Insurance, 841 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, DE 19904, or sent by fax to 302.739.2021 or email to mitch.crane@state.de.us.