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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | May 29, 2024 03:00 PM |
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| From: | Representative Paul Schemel |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Driving Tractors to Agricultural Related Educational Events |
| In the near future, I will be reintroducing legislation (Prior HB 122) to allow students to drive tractors to school for agriculture-related educational events. In the past, students in the Commonwealth loved to drive their tractors to school for agriculture-related educational events and took pride in being able to participate in these events to show their peers the importance of agriculture. Students across the Commonwealth would look forward to these events, but current law is being interpreted by local police departments and the State Police to not permit students to drive their tractors to school for agriculture-related educational events. I believe that students should be able to share their love for agriculture and participate in agriculture-related educational events by allowing them to drive their tractors to school for these events. To that end, my legislation allows an implement of husbandry to be driven to a school from a farm that is an individual’s residence for the purpose of participating in an agriculture-related educational event if the distance between the individual’s residence does not exceed 25 miles. Additionally, my legislation exempts an individual that is 14 years of age or older from having to having to obtain a driver’s license to operate an implement of husbandry that does not exceed 11 feet in width on a roadway between sunrise and sunset for the purpose of driving to an agriculture-related event hosted by a school within 25 miles. I hope you will join me in co-sponsoring this important legislation to allow students to participate in agriculture-related educational events with their tractors. |
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