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Lawmakers Consider Broad Measures to Ease School Bus Driver Shortages; Chiropractors Seek Role in Driver Medical Exams
Summary
Witnesses urged the Joint Committee on Transportation to remove job-search requirements for school bus drivers collecting unemployment, to extend a federal temporary exception for under-the-hood CDL testing, and to add chiropractors to the list of professionals who may perform required school bus medical exams.
Multiple witnesses told the Joint Committee on Transportation that state rules and federal exceptions are needed to address school bus driver shortages and administrative barriers.
Jim Marks, representing Teamsters Local 70, urged the committee to report House Bill 3715 favorably. The bill would eliminate the requirement that school bus drivers apply for unrelated work while collecting unemployment during summer recess if they expect to return to work within 12 weeks. “H 3715 seeks to eliminate…
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