Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to requirements for and restrictions on special minor’s driver’s licenses, and making penalties applicable
Topics:Transportation
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 26, 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 People with special minor's driver's licenses would be allowed to drive to places with internet access for remote learning or to their jobs during certain hours. They could also stop at gas stations along their usual driving routes. Additionally, the rule that prevents kids living less than a mile from school from getting this license would be removed.1
Read the official explanation
between the licensee’s residence, schools of enrollment, bus stops, and sites, facilities, or schools designated by the licensee’s district or school of enrollment for the accommodation of the school’s extracurricular activities, with certain limitations. on days when the licensee’s school or school district requires participation in compulsory remote-learning. The bill permits a licensee to operate a motor vehicle over the most direct and accessible route between the licensee’s residence and any location where internet access is available, provided the licensee uses the internet at the destination for school purposes and the route is no more than miles. to the licensee’s place of employment, so long as the driving distance between the licensee’s place of employment and the nearest point on an authorized route between the licensee’s residence and school of enrollment or the closest bus stop is no more than miles. The bill also allows a licensee to operate a motor vehicle to a service station along the associated routes. applicant’s school stating that a need exists for the license. The fact that an applicant resides at a distance less than one mile from the applicant’s school of enrollment is prima facie evidence of the nonexistence of necessity for the issuance of the license. The bill strikes this exclusion.194 is punishable by a scheduled fine of $70.
House subcommittee
Named January 26, 2021. On February 1, 2021 it recommended amendment and passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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Tried before
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- HF 2063 Relating to requirements for and restrictions on special minor’s driver’s licenses, and ma…88th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
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