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Senate tightens driver-safety language, keeps expungement protections under dispute in CDL bill
Summary
On third reading of House Bill 28, senators adopted amendments clarifying prohibited handheld use for commercial drivers and removed a provision that would have overridden juvenile expungement protections for CDL disqualification reviews.
Senators on Tuesday amended and then passed House Bill 28, a commercial driver licensing bill, after several targeted changes.
Senator Pearson moved a third-reading amendment to clarify the statute’s language about handheld devices for commercial drivers, seeking to protect drivers who use devices for navigation or music as long as the device is not being “used in hand.” The amendment was adopted. A separate committee-of-the-whole amendment…
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