Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary OTHER FISCAL IMPACT The legislation will require updates to the Department of Safety’s A-List software system. The updates are assumed to be accomplished by the relevant vendor under the current contractual agreement at no additional cost to the department. However, if the relevant contract provision is exhausted by this and other legislation subsequently enacted, the Department of Safety could incur an additional increase in expenditures estimated to be $305,000 as provided by the vendor, in FY26-27. Bill Summary If at any time an employee who operates a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) is unable to read and speak English well enough to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals, respond to official inquiries, and make entries on reports and records as required by federal regulations, then this bill prohibits employers from knowingly allowing, permitting, or authorizing the employee to operate a CMV in the United States. However, it is not a violation if an employee fails to meet the hearing standard under federal regulations, obtains an exemption from that requirement, and is capable of reading and writing in English, even if they cannot speak English sufficiently for the above-outlined purposes. OUT-OF-SERVICE ORDERS If an enforcement officer determines during the course of a safety inspection that a driver is in violation of the above requirements, then this bill requires the officer to issue an out-of-service order to the driver that also prevents the vehicle from being operated until a substitute driver capable of reading and speaking English sufficiently is present to operate the vehicle in place of the original driver. The citation is considered a nonmoving traffic violation and points must not be added to the driver's record. In addition to issuance of the out-of-service ord
