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Relating to requirements for and restrictions on special minor’s driver’s licenses, and making penalties applicable
Topics:Transportation
Same legislation: HF 36
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 24, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 no longer be allowed to drive specifically for farm work. Instead, they could use their license to drive between home or school and their place of employment. The bill also removes the rule that says a student cannot get a license if they live less than one mile from their school.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. 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. A licensee may also operate a motor vehicle to a service station along the associated routes. 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.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 24, 2023. On January 30, 2023 it recommended amendment and passage. [].
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. A version became law.
- HF 77 Relating to requirements for and restrictions on special minor’s driver’s licenses, and ma…89th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- SF 231 Regarding driving privileges of persons issued a special minor’s driver’s license, and mak…89th General Assembly · Signed by Governor · similarBecame law
- HF 2063 Relating to requirements for and restrictions on special minor’s driver’s licenses, and ma…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2548 Regarding driving privileges of persons issued a special minor’s driver’s license who resi…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · similarCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- HSB 58 HSB 5890th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 251Nearly identical
- SF 381 Regarding special minor’s driver’s licenses, and making penalties applicable90th General Assembly · Passed SenateVery similar
Matched by wording or an identical title.