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This bill would tell the Department of Transportation to change its rules for commercial driver’s license testing within 90 days. It would make it easier for certain qualified state or third-party examiners to give the written knowledge test, and it would let states give the driving skills test to any commercial driver’s license applicant, no matter which state the person lives in or where they got their training. The goal is to make CDL testing more flexible and efficient.
- Only examiners with the right certification and training could give the knowledge test.
- Those examiners would need to keep a valid examiner certification, finish an approved skills test training course, and complete one required instruction unit.
- States would be allowed to give the driving test to any CDL applicant, even if the applicant is from another state or trained somewhere else.
- The changes would be carried out by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration under the Secretary of Transportation.
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.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 191 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 191
To require 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 22, 2025
Ms. Lummis (for herself and Mr. Kelly) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation
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A BILL
To require 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 a commercial driver's
license knowledge test 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 that section; and
(C) completes 1 unit of instruction described in
subsection (c)(3) of that 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 test 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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