THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY RAPP, METCALFE, PERRY, KAUFFMAN, ELLIS, EVERETT, GILLEN, GINGRICH, HARRIS, HESS, MARSHALL, MARSICO, MILNE, ROAE, ROCK, SCHRODER, SWANGER AND TALLMAN, OCTOBER 31, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 31, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for examination of applicant for

driver's license.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 1508(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 1508.  Examination of applicant for driver's license.

(a)  General rule.--Every applicant for a driver's license

shall be examined for the type or class of vehicles that the

applicant desires to drive. The examination shall include a

physical examination, a screening test of the applicant's

eyesight and a test of the applicant's ability to read and

understand official traffic-control devices, knowledge of safe

driving practices and the traffic laws of this Commonwealth, and

shall include an actual demonstration of ability to exercise

ordinary and reasonable control in the operation of a motor

vehicle of the type or class of vehicles for which the applicant

desires a license to drive. All written and oral examinations

required pursuant to this section shall be administered only in

the English language. If the department finds it necessary to

further determine an applicant's fitness to operate a motor

vehicle safely upon the highways the department may require one

or more of the following types of examinations:

(1)  A vision examination by an optometrist or

ophthalmologist.

(2)  A physical examination pursuant to section 1508.1

(relating to physical examinations).

(3)  A mental examination.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.