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Committee approves amendments to HB 66 to add medical-condition designations on driver licenses
Summary
The Ways and Means General Fund committee adopted two amendments to HB 66—one listing specified conditions and another creating a discreet designation on licenses—and voted to report the bill favorably to the next stage.
The Ways and Means General Fund committee on the floor advanced House Bill 66, which would add a medical-condition designation to drivers’ licenses and related documents. The committee adopted two amendments and voted to forward the bill.
Representative Searls offered a replacement amendment to revise statutory language listing covered conditions. As read into the record, the amendment would "replace line 79 through 84 on page 3 with, number 2, autism spectrum disorder, number 3, traumatic brain injury, number 4, epilepsy, number 5, schizophrenia, or number 6, a cognitive disability." The committee adopted the amendment.
Representative McCampbell offered a second replacement amendment to change lines 60–61 to "create a discreet designation or mark to place on the license part," language the sponsor described as giving licensing agencies discretion to add a nonpublic marker. That amendment was also adopted.
After the amendments were approved, members moved and seconded a motion to report HB 66 favorably. The committee voice vote was in the affirmative and the bill was forwarded with the adopted amendments.
The chair and sponsor thanked staff and stakeholders for working through the technical language. The committee did not provide a recorded roll-call tally in the hearing transcript; the motion passed by voice vote.
What's next: HB 66 will proceed with the adopted amendments to the next stage of committee or floor consideration.
