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Relating to golf cart operator exemptions from the state driver’s licensing requirements, and making penalties applicable
Topics:Families & human servicesCities & countiesTransportation
Same legislation: SF 48
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 2, 2021
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- 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 Local governments can now allow people with physical or mental disabilities to drive golf carts on city streets even if they do not have a driver's license. To do this, a person with a valid driver's license must ride in the golf cart with them. This change applies to cities that choose to allow these drivers to operate golf carts under these specific rules.1
Read the official explanation
Current law permits the governing body of an incorporated area to allow the operation of golf carts on city streets within the incorporated area by persons possessing a valid driver’s license. This bill permits the governing body of an incorporated area to allow a person with a physical or mental disability who does not possess a valid driver’s license to operate a golf cart so long as a person possessing a valid driver’s license is in the golf cart while it is being operated.247.247 commits a simple misdemeanor punishable by a scheduled fine of $135.
House subcommittee
Named February 2, 2021. On February 11, 2021 it recommended amendment and passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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Lobbying
1 for · 0 against · 4 undecided · Who →
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