Regarding special minor’s driver’s licenses, and making penalties applicable

to, among other locations, a site, facility, or school that is not the licensee’s school of enrollment for certain extracurricular activities if the site, facility, or school is within the licensee’s school district of enrollment or is within a school district contiguous to the licensee’s school district of enrollment. This bill instead allows the licensee to operate a motor vehicle during such hours to a site, facility, or school that is not the licensee’s school of enrollment for certain extracurricular activities provided the driving distance between the point of origin and the destination is no more than miles. Licensees who attend a nonpublic school currently operate under a similar 50-mile restriction. Current law also provides that if a licensee resides on a farm or is employed for compensation on a farm in this state, the licensee is authorized to operate a motor vehicle for the purpose of assisting the licensee’s parents, guardians, or employers with farm work or in connection with any farm job, employment, or other farm-related work, including traveling to or from the location of the farm work, provided the licensee operates the vehicle over the most direct and accessible route between the point of origin and the destination and the driving distance between the point of origin and the destination is no more than miles. over the most direct and accessible route between the licensee’s residence or school of enrollment and the licensee’s place of employment, provided the driving distance between the licensee’s place of employment and the nearest point on the route on which the licensee is otherwise authorized to travel is no more than miles. Under current law, an application for a special minor’s driver’s license must be accompanied by a statement from the applicant’s school of enrollment certifying 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 the presumption of the nonexistence of necessity for an applicant who lives less than one mile from the applicant’s school of enrollment.194 is punishable by a scheduled fine of $70.