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A2006
ASSEMBLY, No. 2006
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
�
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHAMA A. HAIDER
District 37 (Bergen)
Assemblyman MICHAEL VENEZIA
District 34 (Essex)
SYNOPSIS
���� Requires school bus drivers to retake certain
knowledge and skills tests.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
��
An Act
concerning school bus drivers and amending P.L.1990,
c.103.
����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.� Section 4 of P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.12) is amended to read as follows:
���� 4.� a.� Notwithstanding any
other provision of law to the contrary, the chief administrator shall adopt and
administer a classified licensing system and a program for testing and ensuring
the fitness of persons to operate commercial motor vehicles in accordance with
the minimum federal standards established under the federal "Commercial
Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986," Pub. L. 99-570 (49 U.S.C. s. 2701 et
seq.) and the regulations promulgated pursuant to that law.� The chief
administrator shall not issue a commercial driver license to a person unless
that person passes a knowledge and skills test for the operation of a
commercial motor vehicle which complies with the federal standards.� The chief
administrator may issue commercial driver examination or learner's permits,
subject to such conditions and restrictions as deemed necessary, to carry out
the provisions of
[
this
act
]
P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.9 et seq.)
.
���� b.��� A knowledge and skills
test shall not be required by the chief administrator for the renewal of a
commercial driver license issued pursuant to the provisions of
[
this act
]
P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.9 et seq.)
.� However, a knowledge and skills test may be
required for (1) the renewal of an endorsement permitting the operation of
vehicles required to be placarded for hazardous materials, (2)
[
for
]
the renewal
or reissuance of a commercial driver license if the license was suspended or
revoked under section 12 of
[
this
act
]
P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.20)
during the last license period preceding the renewal
or reissuance, or (3)
[
for
]
the renewal
or reissuance of a license which had not been renewed for a period of three or
more years. �
A knowledge and skills test shall be required to maintain a
school bus endorsement as provided pursuant to this subsection.
����
A person with a school bus
endorsement shall pass a school bus endorsement knowledge test and school bus
endorsement skills test every five years in order to maintain the school bus
endorsement, except that a person with a school bus endorsement who is 70 years
of age or older shall pass a school bus endorsement knowledge test and school
bus endorsement skills test every year in order to maintain the school bus
endorsement.
���� c.��� Upon the request of an
applicant for a commercial driver license, the chief administrator shall
administer to the applicant oral knowledge tests for the commercial driver
license and any endorsements if the applicant supplies sufficient proof or
otherwise demonstrates to the satisfaction of the chief administrator
[
his
]
the
applicant�s
inability to comprehend a written test. The chief administrator
shall provide an English and Spanish version of the knowledge tests for a
commercial driver license and for any endorsements and shall be authorized to
provide versions in such other languages as
[
he,
in his discretion,
]
the chief administrator
may deem appropriate.
���� d.��� A person who
satisfactorily completes the knowledge tests required by
[
this act
]
P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.9 et seq.)
for a commercial driver license and any
endorsement shall not be required under R.S.39:3-10, R.S.39:3-10.1, or any
other section in Title 39 of the Revised Statutes to take any other knowledge
test for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle.
���� e.��� (Deleted by amendment,
P.L.2005, c.147)
[
.
]
���� f.���� For the purposes of an
application for a commercial driver license by a person who has never held a
license issued under the provisions of
[
this
act
]
P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.9 et seq.)
, a person who satisfactorily completes the
knowledge test for the commercial driver license but not the test for an
endorsement, or a person who satisfactorily completes the knowledge test for an
endorsement but not the test for the commercial driver license, shall not be
required to retake that test which was satisfactorily completed.
���� g.��� No provision in
[
this act
]
P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.9 et seq.)
, or in any manual, test, or administrative
procedure developed to implement the provisions of
[
this act
]
P.L.1990,
c.103 (C.39:3-10.9 et seq.)
, shall be deemed to expand the requirements for
commercial motor vehicle operators concerning pre-trip inspection, after-trip
inspection
,
and inspection during a trip as such requirements are set
forth in federal law or regulation.� This subsection, however, shall not be
deemed to limit the authority of the chief administrator, or the authority of
any State department or agency, to promulgate, pursuant to other provisions of
State law, standards and procedures on vehicle inspections which are consistent
with federal law and regulation.
���� h.��� Classified licensing of
drivers of school buses shall be by endorsement on the commercial driver
licenses issued pursuant to P.L.1990, c.103 (C.39:3-10.9 et seq.).
(cf: P.L.2005, c.147, s.3)
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill requires a person
with a school bus endorsement to retake the school bus endorsement knowledge
test and the school bus endorsement skills test every five years in order to
maintain the school bus endorsement.� A person who is 70 years of age or older
is required, under the bill, to retake the school bus endorsement knowledge
test and school bus endorsement skills test every year in order to maintain the
school bus endorsement.