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- Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-South Dakota]
- Rep. Harder, Josh [D-California-9]
- Rep. Costa, Jim [D-California-21]
- Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-Ohio-12]
- Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-Texas-28]
- Rep. McDonald Rivet, Kristen [D-Michigan-8]
- Rep. Bost, Mike [R-Illinois-12]
- Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-Michigan-3]
- Rep. Franklin, Scott [R-Florida-18]
AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would tell the Department of Transportation to change some rules for commercial driver’s license testing. Its main goal is to make testing work more smoothly by letting more qualified examiners give the written knowledge test and by allowing states to give the driving skills test to any commercial driver’s license applicant, no matter which state the person lives in or where they were trained. The bill says these rule changes should be made within 90 days after the law takes effect.
- State or third-party examiners could give the commercial driver’s license knowledge test only if they have current examiner certification, finish the required skills-test training course, and complete one required unit of instruction.
- States would be allowed to administer the driving skills test to any commercial driver’s license applicant, even if the applicant lives in a different state or got training elsewhere.
- The bill is meant to make the testing process simpler and more flexible for applicants, states, and examiners.
Official Summaries
Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently Act of 2025 or the LICENSE Act of 2025
This bill requires the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCA) to revise regulations to relax certain requirements related to commercial driver's license (CDL) testing.
Specifically, the FMCA must allow a state or third-party examiner who has maintained a valid CDL test examiner certification and has previously completed a CDL skills test examiner training course to administer the CDL knowledge test, so long as they have completed one unit of instruction regarding the CDL knowledge test.
The FMCA must also allow a state to administer a driving skills test to any CDL applicant regardless of the applicant's state of domicile or where the applicant received driver training.
As background, the FMCA implemented temporary waivers for similar CDL testing-related requirements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These waivers have since expired.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 623 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 623
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain regulations
relating to the requirements for commercial driver's license testing
and commercial learner's permit holders, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 22, 2025
Mr. LaHood (for himself, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Harder of
California, Mr. Costa, Mr. Balderson, and Mr. Cuellar) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure
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A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain regulations
relating to the requirements for commercial driver's license testing
and commercial learner's permit holders, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Licensing Individual Commercial
Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently Act of 2025'' or the ``LICENSE
Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE
REGULATIONS.
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administrator of the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, shall--
(1) revise section 384.228 of title 49, Code of Federal
Regulations (or a successor regulation), to allow a State or
third-party examiner to administer the commercial driver's
license knowledge test only if the examiner--
(A) maintains a valid commercial driver's license
test examiner certification;
(B) completes a commercial driver's license skills
test examiner training course that meets the
requirements of subsection (d) of such section; and
(C) completes 1 unit of instruction described in
subsection (c)(3) of such section; and
(2) revise section 383.79 of title 49, Code of Federal
Regulations (or a successor regulation), to allow a State to
administer a driving skills tests to any commercial driver's
license applicant, regardless of the State of domicile of the
applicant or where the applicant received driver training.
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