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S 1052 General Bill, By Land
Similar (H 4041)
    A Bill to amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, by adding Section 56-1-2155 so as to provide the content of the school bus restricted and school endorsement commercial driver's license tests, to require a school bus driver to complete inservice training, to require the Department of Education to approve the content of the school bus restricted and the school endorsement commercial driver's license tests, to provide the cost for training, permitting, and testing necessary to obtain a school bus restricted commercial driver's license, to provide the fee structure for the school endorsement commercial driver's license, and to require applicants for the school bus or school endorsement commercial driver's licenses to complete a medical exam; to amend Sections 56-1-2030, as amended, 56-1-2050, as amended, 56-1-2070, 56-1-2080, 56-1-2090, 56-1-2100, as amended, 56-1-2110, as amended, and 56-1-2150 relating to the South Carolina Commercial Driver License Act, so as to include definitions for "school bus driver" and "instructor of driver training and safety"; to require the operator of a school bus involved in a traffic violation to provide his employer this information, and to prohibit a school bus driver who violates this provision from operating a school bus; to require a person who obtains a commercial driver's license to operate a school bus to obtain a school bus restricted or a school bus endorsement commercial driver's license; to specify who may administer the school bus restricted commercial driver's license and the school endorsement for a commercial driver's license skills tests, and to prohibit a school bus driver from waiving the skills tests; to revise the fee a public school bus driver must pay to obtain a school bus restricted commercial driver's license, and to provide the procedure, the issuance, and renewal of commercial driver's licenses, school bus driver certifications, school bus commercial driver's licenses, and school endorsement commercial driver's licenses; to require a person issued a license with a school bus restriction to only operate a school bus; to disqualify persons who have committed certain acts to be disqualified from operating a school bus; to provide the testing a person who has been issued a commercial driver's license in another state must receive to be permitted to operate a school bus in this State, and to require the Department of Education to determine whether another State's testing procedure is acceptable; and to provide that the term "driver license" shall mean "driver's license" wherever it appears in the Code and to permit the Code Commissioner to make the appropriate changes in the Code to conform with this provision.
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01/23/96Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-9
01/23/96Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation SJ-9
03/28/96Senate Committee report: Favorable with amendment Transportation SJ-8



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