Relating to youth employment, providing for a minor driver’s license interim study committee, and making penalties applicable

Under current law, a violation of Code chapter is generally a serious misdemeanor. A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560. The bill allows the labor commissioner to waive or reduce a civil penalty under Code chapter based on evidence the commissioner may obtain and requires the commissioner to provide a 15-day grace period before imposing a civil penalty. Under current law, an employer violating Code chapter is subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000. The bill changes terminology referring to “occupations” to instead refer to “work activities”. The bill allows the director of the department of workforce development or department of education to grant an exception from specified provisions of Code chapter relating to prohibited work activities and work hours for minors to years of age participating in work-based learning or a school or employer-administered, work-related program approved by the department of workforce development or the department of education if specified conditions apply. The bill provides that specified prohibitions on work activities are inapplicable to a student in an approved work-based learning program, registered apprenticeship, career and technical education program, or student learner program provided the student is employed under specified conditions. A minor shall not perform work under these provisions unless the labor commissioner has on file written permission from the minor’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian, and from the school administering the program or employer, for the minor to perform work under these provisions. The bill provides that a business that accepts a secondary student in a work-based learning program shall not be subject to civil liability for any claim for bodily injury to the student or sickness or death by accident of the student arising from the student’s driving to or from the business or worksite to participate in the work-based learning program unless the student is acting within the course and scope of the student’s employment at the direction of the business. Any claim for bodily injury to the student or sickness or death by accident of the student arising from the business’s negligent act or omission during the student’s participation in the work-based learning program at the business or worksite shall be recovered exclusively under workers’ compensation. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.49 if the employer has on file written permission from the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of the person. The employer shall keep a copy of the written permission on file until the person is either years of age or no longer engaged in the sale of or serving alcoholic beverages.49 is a simple misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than days and a fine of at least $105 but not more than $855. MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATION.180B.180B include a three-step process from instruction permit to intermediate license to full driver’s license. Instruction permit holders (age to 18) must be accompanied by a certain type of licensed driver, such as a parent, at all times. to and from school-related extracurricular activities and work if the licensee possesses a waiver. The bill authorizes a person issued an instruction permit to drive to and from work without an accompanying driver no earlier than minutes prior to the start of, and no later than minutes after the end of, the person’s work shift if the person is employed. The driving distance between the point of origin and the destination cannot exceed miles, the location of the work establishment must be a fixed location and the only location at which the permittee is authorized to work for the employer, and the travel is required to be for purposes of getting to or from the location for employment. A permittee is not authorized to transport passengers without an accompanying driver. To be authorized to drive to work, the permittee is required to submit a document signed by the student’s parent or guardian and the student’s employer authorizing the permittee to operate under the bill to the department of transportation. The permittee must carry the document during travel. A violation of these provisions is punishable by a scheduled fine of $200 and can result in suspension of the instruction permit. A violation is also considered a moving violation, and as such, may be considered for purposes of administrative suspension of a driver’s license or to establish habitual offender status.180B are not considered moving violations and are punishable by a scheduled fine of $70.