PRINTER'S NO. 4560
No. 2836 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY PERRY, BAKER, BOYD, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, EVERETT,
FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GEIST, HALUSKA, HERSHEY, HUTCHINSON,
M. KELLER, MARSHALL, METCALFE, R. MILLER, MURT, MUSTIO,
PAYNE, RAPP, ROAE, ROCK, ROHRER, SAYLOR, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY,
SONNEY, STERN, R. STEVENSON AND SWANGER, OCTOBER 29, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 29, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for commercial driver's license
3 qualification standards.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1607(a)(6) of Title 75 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1607. Commercial driver's license qualification standards.
9 (a) Testing.--
10 * * *
11 (6) The department shall provide applicants for
12 commercial driver's licenses with the choice of selecting a
13 knowledge test administered in either a written or an oral
14 format:
15 (i) The department shall administer the knowledge
16 tests only in [both] the English [and Spanish languages]
17 language.
1 (ii) An applicant requesting the oral [or Spanish]
2 version of the knowledge test must schedule for the
3 examination at a testing site authorized by the
4 department.
5 (iii) The department shall offer alternate testing
6 formats to avoid discrimination against drivers with
7 limited literacy or verbal comprehension skills.
8 (iv) The alternative of an oral version of the
9 knowledge test shall not be available to persons seeking
10 a hazardous materials endorsement on a commercial
11 driver's license.
12 * * *
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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