Session of 1998
                   
House Concurrent Resolution No. 5036
         
By Committee on Transportation
         
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            9             A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress
10             to modify the commercial driver's license law to allow states the option
11             to license drivers of commercial motor vehicles in intrastate commerce
12             based upon testing standards developed by individual states.
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14           WHEREAS, The passage of the federal commercial driver's license
15       law has been both a benefit and a bane to the state of Kansas and to other
16       states;
17           WHEREAS, The passage of the federal commercial driver's license
18       law has brought a national uniformity for the issuance and enforcement
19       of driver's license laws for commercial operators which increases safety
20       for the traveling public;
21           WHEREAS, Although the passage of the federal commercial driver's
22       license law has brought many benefits, the law has also brought many
23       problems to the operators of commercial motor vehicles in intrastate com-
24       merce;
25           WHEREAS, One Kansas example of such troubles can be seen by the
26       requirement that part-time road grader operators used in the removal of
27       snow by townships are required to have a CDL;
28           WHEREAS, One possible solution to help the State of Kansas and
29       other states is to modify the federal commercial driver's license law to
30       allow the states the option to license drivers of commercial motor vehicles
31       in intrastate commerce based upon testing standards developed by the
32       individual state, which conform to the needs of such individual
33       state: Now, therefor,
34           Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Kansas,
35       the Senate concurring therein: That the Legislature of Kansas strongly
36       urges the United States Congress to modify the provisions of the federal
37       commercial driver's license law to allow the States the option to license
38       drivers of commercial motor vehicles in intrastate commerce based upon
39       testing standards developed by the individual states and determined by
40       the needs of such individual states;
41           Be it further resolved: That the Secretary of State be directed to send
42       copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, the Pres-
43       ident of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House

HCR 5036

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  1       of Representatives and to each member of the Kansas Congressional Del-
  2       egation.
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