Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to certain persons exempt from commercial driver’s license requirements
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2022
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Currently, certain people like firefighters and police officers do not need a commercial driver's license to drive large vehicles during emergencies. This bill expands those special rules to include people working in homeland security and emergency management. It also removes the special rule that allowed home care aides to drive these vehicles while working.1
Read the official explanation
176B, and a home care aide operating a motor vehicle in the course of the home care aide’s duties. This bill expands the exemption for fire fighters and peace officers to include members of the department of homeland security and emergency management or a local emergency management agency. Under the bill, the exemption applies when executing emergency governmental functions rather than “related” government functions. The bill strikes the exemption for a home care aide operating a motor vehicle in the course of the home care aide’s duties.