1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to drivers' licenses; prohibiting Department of Public Safety from 
1.3 	giving written examination for a driver's license in any language but English; 
1.4 	making clarifying changes; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.13, 
1.5 	subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Rules, part 7410.4740, item A.
1.6 	 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.13, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.8 		 Subdivision 1.Examination subjects and locations; English requirement; 
1.9 	provisions for color blindness, disabled veterans.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in 
1.10 	this section, the commissioner shall examine each applicant for a driver's license by such 
1.11 	agency as the commissioner directs. The commissioner may not give the examination in 
1.12 	any language other than English. 
1.13 	(b) This examination must include a test of the applicant's eyesight; ability to read 
1.14 	and understand highway signs regulating, warning, and directing traffic; knowledge of 
1.15 	traffic laws; knowledge of the effects of alcohol and drugs on a driver's ability to operate a 
1.16 	motor vehicle safely and legally, and of the legal penalties and financial consequences 
1.17 	resulting from violations of laws prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle while under 
1.18 	the influence of alcohol or drugs; knowledge of railroad grade crossing safety; knowledge 
1.19 	of slow-moving vehicle safety; knowledge of traffic laws related to bicycles; an and actual 
1.20 	demonstration of ability to demonstrate the exercise of ordinary and reasonable control in 
1.21 	the operation of a motor vehicle ; and. This examination must include other physical and 
1.22 	mental examinations as the commissioner finds necessary to determine the applicant's 
1.23 	fitness to operate a motor vehicle safely upon the highways, provided, further.
2.1 	(c) However, no driver's license the commissioner shall be denied not deny an 
2.2 	applicant a driver's license on the exclusive grounds that the applicant's eyesight is 
2.3 	deficient in color perception. Provided, however, that 
2.4 	(d) War veterans operating motor vehicles especially equipped for handicapped 
2.5 	persons, shall, if otherwise entitled to a driver's license, must be granted such the license.
2.6 	(e) The commissioner shall make provision for giving these examinations either in 
2.7 	the county where the applicant resides or at a place adjacent thereto reasonably convenient 
2.8 	to the applicant.

2.9 	Sec. 2. REVISOR'S INSTRUCTION.
 2.10 	The revisor of statutes shall delete part 7410.4740, item A, from Minnesota Rules 
2.11 	and make other style and form changes necessitated by the deletion, including correcting 
2.12 	or deleting any relevant cross-references.

2.13 	Sec. 3.  REPEALER.
 2.14 	Minnesota Rules, part 7410.4740, item A, is repealed.