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ID S1397
Bill
AI Summary
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Allows any physician who has reason to believe an individual is incompetent to drive a motor vehicle to submit a report to the Idaho Department of Transportation.
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Provides immunity from professional disciplinary procedures, monetary liability, and lawsuits for physicians who submit competency reports in good faith.
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Defines incompetence to drive as conditions causing lapses of consciousness or control, physical or mental disabilities preventing reasonable vehicle control, inability to understand traffic signs, or visual acuity worse than 20/40 in the better eye.
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Maintains the department's authority to suspend or revoke driver's licenses based on physician recommendations regarding driver incompetency and to require skills tests for individuals with vision between 20/40 and 20/70.
Legislative Description
Amends existing law relating to driver's licenses to provide that a physician who has reason to believe that a person is incompetent to drive a motor vehicle may submit a report, to provide for notice and to provide that if a physician submits a report in good faith, no professional disciplinary procedure, no monetary liability and no cause of action may arise against the physician for submission of the report.
MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER'S LICENSES
Last Action
to Transp
3/23/2010