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Senate committee advances bill easing medical-review schedule for drivers with past loss of consciousness
Summary
A Minnesota Senate committee approved an amendment to Senate File 43 to create two new exemptions from routine medical reviews for drivers who had past loss-of-consciousness episodes and meet defined time-off-medication and physician-release criteria; the bill moves to the State Government Committee.
Senator Mary Rasmussen moved forward changes to driver medical-review rules under Senate File 43, a bill that would add two narrower exemptions allowing some people with past loss-of-consciousness episodes to avoid routine, frequent physician reevaluations to retain a driver’s license.
The proposal matters because current Minnesota law and rule require an individual who has had an episode involving loss of consciousness (for example, a seizure) to be examined by a physician and to submit certification at least every year, with a special existing exemption that reduces that interval to every four years after four years without episodes. The bill, as amended, would add two additional exemptions based on…
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