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Committee adopts substitute, unanimously advances bill to verify English proficiency at CDL schools
Summary
A committee adopted a first substitute and unanimously recommended HB 535, which requires CDL training schools to collect a student attestation of English proficiency and shifts certain enforcement steps away from the testing providers to reduce the bill's fiscal note.
A House committee on March 3 adopted a first substitute and unanimously recommended House Bill 535, a measure that changes oversight of commercial driver license (CDL) training and testing by requiring training schools to collect student attestations about English proficiency and by narrowing the division’s auditing scope.
Representative Perucci, the sponsor, said the substitute removes the large fiscal note in the original bill by limiting the division’s monitoring duties and by using a complaint-driven approach to identify “bad actors” among training schools. “The substitute will largely take care of that massive fiscal note on the original version of…
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