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Committee adopts amendment to HB 3856 that removes DMVrandom retest requirement for third-party testers
Summary
A House Education and Public Works subcommittee adopted Amendment 1 to House Bill 3856, a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) cleanup bill. The amendment removes a statutory requirement for randomized retesting of applicants who passed exams administered through licensed driving schools; the committee approved the amendment by voice/recorded ayes.
The Education and Public Works subcommittee adopted Amendment 1 to House Bill 3856, a broad DMV cleanup bill, removing a statutory requirement that the DMV randomly retest applicants who previously passed driving exams administered by third-party driving schools.
The amendment was offered by Representative Tipple. "We are placing a significant amount of undue burden of time and money on our constituents," Representative Tipple said, describing a constituentexperience in which a newly approved driver was told to retest and was not offered an immediate retest appointment, delaying the start of a planned job. Tipple said about 1,000 applicants a year — roughly 2% of applicants, he said — are selected for the random retest and that retest results show about an 80% success rate for those applicants.
Pedro Adamasky, speaking for DMV staff, explained why the agency uses randomized audits: "That…
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