HB0107 • 2024

Commercial driver license-medical certificate downgrade-1.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; imposing a time period for the department of transportation to downgrade a commercial driver's license; requiring the department of transportation to reinstate commercial driver's licenses previously downgraded as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Healthcare

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Representative Styvar
Last action: 2024-02-16
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2024

Plain English Breakdown

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Commercial Driver License Medical Certificate Requirements

This act sets rules about when and how commercial driver's licenses can be downgraded or reinstated based on medical certification requirements.

What This Bill Does

Sets a time limit of 60 days for drivers to provide an updated federal medical qualification certificate after their current one expires.
Requires the Department of Transportation to downgrade a commercial driver’s license if the driver does not submit a new medical certificate within 60 days.
Allows the Department of Transportation to reinstate a previously downgraded commercial driver's license without requiring additional tests when the driver provides an updated medical certificate before the original expiration date.

Who It Names or Affects

Commercial drivers who need federal medical qualification certificates for their licenses.

Terms To Know

Federal Medical Qualification Certificate: A document that confirms a commercial driver meets the required health standards to operate a commercial vehicle safely.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was not considered for introduction, so it has no legal effect.
It is unclear how many drivers will be affected by this act since it did not become law.

Bill History

2024-02-16 House
H Did not Consider for Introduction
2024-02-07 House
H Received for Introduction
2024-02-02 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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24LSO-0242
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0242
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0107

Commercial driver license-medical certificate downgrade-1.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Styvar, Allemand, Andrew, Brown, Jennings, Neiman, Pendergraft, Slagle, Smith and Tarver and Senator(s) Hutchings, Ide, Kolb and McKeown

A BILL

for

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 31
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305(o) is amended to read:

31
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305.

Disqualification and cancellation; right to a hearing.

(o)

A person may be disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle, or the department may downgrade a person's commercial driver's license to a noncommercial driver's license, if the person fails to provide a current federal medical qualification certificate
when requested by
within sixty (60) days after the expiration of the federal medical qualification certificate on file with
the department.
The department shall reinstate a commercial driver's license that was previously downgraded under this subsection without requiring the person to take the knowledge and driving tests under W.S. 31
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114 upon the person providing a current federal medical qualification certificate before the original expiration date of the commercial driver's license.

Section 2
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The department of transportation shall promulgate any rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3.

(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2024.

(b)

Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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