PRINTER'S NO. 4009
No. 2687 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY T. STEVENSON, BOYD, CAPPELLI, DALLY, JAMES,
LEDERER, MUSTIO, PISTELLA, REICHLEY, SCAVELLO, SEMMEL,
R. STEVENSON, SCRIMENTI AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 8, 2004
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 8, 2004
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for a limit on teenage passengers
3 in a vehicle operated by a licensed junior driver.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1503(c) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
8 § 1503. Persons ineligible for licensing; license issuance to
9 minors; junior driver's license.
10 * * *
11 (c) Junior driver's license.--The department may issue a
12 junior driver's license to a person 16 or 17 years of age under
13 rules and regulations adopted by the department and subject to
14 the provisions of this section. A junior driver's license shall
15 automatically become a regular driver's license when the junior
16 driver attains 18 years of age.
17 * * *
18 (2.1) No licensed junior driver shall drive a vehicle
1 with more than one passenger under the age of 18, unless
2 accompanied by a spouse 18 years of age or older, a parent or
3 a person in loco parentis.
4 * * *
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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