Amended in Senate May 28, 2013

Amended in Assembly April 1, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 722

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 begin insert specified licensed end insert doctor of chiropractic begin delete and a certified medical examiner, as specified, end delete 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, begin insert or end insert a licensed doctor of begin delete chiropractic,
or a licensed medical examiner end delete begin insert chiropractic end insert 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).