Bill Text: IL HB4333 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the re-examination of an applicant for a driver's license or permit who is over the age of 80 shall include, but is not limited to, a written examination no more than once every 4 years and any other examinations required by the Code.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4333 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4333-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4333 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/6-109
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the re-examination of an applicant for a driver's license or permit who is over the age of 80 shall include, but is not limited to, a written examination no more than once every 4 years and any other examinations required by the Code.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 6-109 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/6-109)
Sec. 6-109. Examination of Applicants.
(a) The Secretary of State shall examine every applicant
for a driver's license or permit who has not been previously
licensed as a driver under the laws of this State or any other
state or country, or any applicant for renewal of such driver's
license or permit when such license or permit has been expired
for more than one year. The Secretary of State shall, subject
to the provisions of paragraph (c) or (b-5), examine every
licensed driver at least every 8 years, and may examine or
re-examine any other applicant or licensed driver, provided
that during the years 1984 through 1991 those drivers issued a
license for 3 years may be re-examined not less than every 7
years or more than every 10 years.
The Secretary of State shall require the testing of the
eyesight of any driver's license or permit applicant who has
not been previously licensed as a driver under the laws of this
State and shall promulgate rules and regulations to provide for

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the orderly administration of all the provisions of this
Section.
The Secretary of State shall include at least one test
question that concerns the provisions of the Pedestrians with
Disabilities Safety Act in the question pool used for the
written portion of the drivers license examination within one
year after July 22, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act
96-1167).
(b) Except as provided for those applicants in paragraph
(c), such examination shall include a test of the applicant's
eyesight, his ability to read and understand official traffic
control devices, his knowledge of safe driving practices and
the traffic laws of this State, and may include an actual
demonstration of the applicant's ability to exercise ordinary
and reasonable control of the operation of a motor vehicle, and
such further physical and mental examination as the Secretary
of State finds necessary to determine the applicant's fitness
to operate a motor vehicle safely on the highways, except the
examination of an applicant 75 years of age or older shall
include an actual demonstration of the applicant's ability to
exercise ordinary and reasonable control of the operation of a
motor vehicle. All portions of written and verbal examinations
under this Section, excepting where the English language
appears on facsimiles of road signs, may be given in the
Spanish language and, at the discretion of the Secretary of
State, in any other language as well as in English upon request

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of the examinee. Deaf persons who are otherwise qualified are
not prohibited from being issued a license, other than a
commercial driver's license, under this Code.
(b-5) Except as provided for those applicants in paragraph
(c), re-examination of applicants who at the time of renewing
their driver's license are over the age of 80 shall include,
but is not limited to, a written examination no more than once
every 4 years and any other examinations required under this
Section.
(c) Re-examination for those applicants who at the time of
renewing their driver's license possess a driving record devoid
of any convictions of traffic violations or evidence of
committing an offense for which mandatory revocation would be
required upon conviction pursuant to Section 6-205 at the time
of renewal shall be in a manner prescribed by the Secretary in
order to determine an applicant's ability to safely operate a
motor vehicle, except that every applicant for the renewal of a
driver's license who is 75 years of age or older must prove, by
an actual demonstration, the applicant's ability to exercise
reasonable care in the safe operation of a motor vehicle.
(d) In the event the applicant is not ineligible under the
provisions of Section 6-103 to receive a driver's license, the
Secretary of State shall make provision for giving an
examination, either in the county where the applicant resides
or at a place adjacent thereto reasonably convenient to the
applicant, within not more than 30 days from the date said

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application is received.
(e) The Secretary of State may adopt rules regarding the
use of foreign language interpreters during the application and
examination process.
(Source: P.A. 96-1167, eff. 7-22-10; 96-1231, eff. 7-23-10;
97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)