BILL NUMBER: AB 722	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 12517.2 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 722, as amended, Lowenthal. Vehicles: driver's licenses:
medical examinations.
   Existing law requires applicants for an original or renewal
certificate to drive a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth
bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor vehicle to
submit a report, on a form approved by the department, of a medical
examination of the applicant given not more than 2 years prior to the
date of the application by a physician licensed to practice
medicine, a licensed advanced practice registered nurse qualified to
perform a medical examination, or a licensed physician assistant.
   This bill would add a doctor of chiropractic  and a certified
medical examiner, as specified, to the list of persons who may
make a report of a medical examination of the specified applicants.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12517.2 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   12517.2.  (a) Applicants for an original or renewal certificate to
drive a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general
public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor vehicle shall submit a
report of a medical examination of the applicant given not more than
two years prior to the date of the application by a physician
licensed to practice medicine, a licensed advanced practice
registered nurse qualified to perform a medical examination, a
licensed physician assistant,  or a doctor of chiropractic.
  a licensed doctor of chiropractic, or a licensed
medical examiner listed on the most current National Registry of
  Certified Medical Examiners, as adopted by the United
States Department of Transportation, as published by the notice in
the Federal Register, Volume 77, Number 77, Friday, April 20, 2012,
on pages 24104 to 24135, inclusive, and pursuant to Section 391.42 of
Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.  The report shall
be on a form approved by the department.
   (b) Schoolbus drivers, within the same month of reaching 65 years
of age and each 12th month thereafter, shall undergo a medical
examination, pursuant to Section 12804.9, and shall submit a report
of that medical examination on a form as specified in subdivision
(a).