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S 1649 118th Congress Senate Transportation and Public Works Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of Transportation Employment and training programs Licensing and registrations Motor carriers

LICENSE Act of 2023

Introduced: May 17, 2023 Introduced by: Lummis, Cynthia M. Republican · Wyoming See on congress.gov
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May 17, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 17, 2023
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently Act of 2023 or the LICENSE Act of 2023

This bill provides statutory authority for waivers of training, testing, and other requirements for commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) that were issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specifically, this bill allows 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 the CDL knowledge test training course.

The bill also allows 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.

What's happening now May 17, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 3013 Identical bill LICENSE Act of 2023
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Kelly, Mark
Arizona · May 17, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1649: LICENSE Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1649/
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"S. 1649: LICENSE Act of 2023." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1649/.
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S. 1649, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1649/.
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