HB 550 — Intermediate driver's license; delete all references to.

HB 550 (As PassedSent theto House)Governor) - 2021 Regular Session MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE Regular Session To:

Representative Busby House Bill 550 (As PassedSent theto House)Governor) AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 45-33-43, 63-1-5, 63-1-9, 63-1-10.1, 63-1-21, 63-1-23, 63-1-35, 63-1-43 AND 63-1-47, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DELETE ALL REFERENCES TO AN INTERMEDIATE DRIVER'S LICENSE;

TO AMEND SECTION 63-1-21, Mississippi Code of 1972, TO AUTHORIZE A REGULAR LICENSE HOLDER UNDER THE AGE OF 18 TO DRIVE UNSUPERVISED AT ANY TIME DIRECTLY TO OR FROM AN EDUCATIONAL OR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY;

TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING SECTIONS;

 At the time a person surrenders a driver's license from another jurisdiction or makes an application for a driver's license, temporary driving permit, * * *intermediatepermit, * * * intermediate license, commercial driver's license or identification card issued under Section 45-35-3, the department shall provide the applicant with written information on the registration requirements of this chapter and shall require written acknowledgment by the applicant of receipt of the notification.

 * * *  (b)  An intermediate license may be issued to any person who is at least sixteen (16) years of age who otherwise meets the requirements of this article and who has held a regular learner's permit for at least one (1) year without any conviction under Section 63‑11‑30 or of a moving violation.  Any conviction under Section 63‑11‑30 or of a moving violation shall restart the one‑year requirement for the holding of a regular learner's permit before an applicant can qualify for an intermediate license. license. An applicant for an intermediate license who was unable to make timely application in 2020 for a regular learner's permit, due to the closure of driver's license offices owing to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‑19), shall have the period in which he or she was eligible but unable to apply credited toward the one‑year requirement for the holding of a regular learner's permit.

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 * * *However,          ( * * *cb)  A driver's license may be issued to any person who is at least * * *sixteen and one‑half (16‑1/2) sixteen (16) years of age who otherwise meets the requirements of this article and who has held * * *an intermediate license for at least six (6) months a regular learner's permit for at least one (1) year without any conviction under Section 63-11-30 or of a moving violation.  Any conviction under Section 63-11-30 or of a moving violation shall restart the * * * six‑month one-year requirement for the holding of * * * an intermediate license a regular learner's permit before an applicant can qualify for a driver's license. * * *However, a person who is at least seventeen (17) years of age who has been issued a regular learner's permit and who has never been convicted under Section 63‑11‑30 or of a moving violation shall not be required to have held an intermediate license.

 An applicant for a driver's license who was unable to make timely application in 2020 for an intermediate license, due to the closure of driver's license offices owing to the Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID‑19), (COVID-19), shall have the period in which he or she was eligible but unable to apply credited toward the * * *six‑month oneone‑year year requirement for the holding of an intermediate license.

     (3) (3) The The commissioner shall ensure that the regular learner's permit * * *, intermediate license and driver's license issued under this article are clear, distinct and easily distinguishable from one another.

     (3)(3) * * *(a)   * * *(a)  An intermediate license allows A A regular license holder under the age of eighteen (18) shall be allowed unsupervised driving from 6:00 a.m.

Friday and Saturday, and * * *allows shall be allowed unsupervised driving any time for a person traveling directly to or from work. work or other educational or extracurricular activity.  At all other times * * *the intermediate licensee for the first six (6) months,months as a regular license holder, the regular license holder under the age of eighteen (18) must be supervised by a parent, guardian or other person aged twenty-one (21) years or older who holds a valid driver's license under this article and who is actually occupying the seat beside the driver.

$11.00 Regular Learner's Permit authorized in Section 63-1-21.....63-1-21..........................................

$48.00 CDL Learner's Permit authorized in Section 63-1-208........63-1-208.........................................

$10.00 Duplicate CDL or CDL learner's permit.....................permit................

Temporary Motorcycle Permit...............................Permit..........................

$ 1.00 Four-year or eight-year Motorcycle Endorsement.............Endorsement........

$ 5.00 Late Renewal Fee.........................................Fee.....................................

No fee Hazardous Materials Background Check (federal).............(federal)........

$63.00 Hazardous Materials Background Check (state)...............(state)..........

$37.00 CDL Application Fee.......................................Fee..................................

Tanker Endorsement.......................................Endorsement...................................

$ 5.00 Doubles/Triples Endorsement...............................Endorsement..........................

$ 5.00 Passenger Endorsement.....................................Endorsement................................

$ 5.00 Hazardous Materials Endorsement...........................Endorsement......................

$ 5.00 School Bus Endorsement....................................Endorsement...............................

$ 5.00                    (c)  In addition to the fees required in this section, an applicant may contribute an additional One Dollar ($1.00) which shall be deposited into the Statewide Litter Prevention Fund.  The applicant shall be informed that he may contribute an additional One Dollar ($1.00) which shall be deposited into the Statewide Litter Prevention Fund and shall be expended solely for the purpose of funding litter prevention projects or litter education programs, as recommended by the Statewide Litter Prevention Program of Keep Mississippi Beautiful, Inc.

          ( * * *cb) ( * * *cb) The The term of an ignition-interlock-restricted license issued under this article shall be four (4) years.

     (3) (3) (a)  (a)  All applications by an operator under eighteen (18) years of age must be accompanied by documentation that the applicant is in compliance with the education requirements of Section 63-1-9(1)(g), and the documentation used in establishing compliance must be dated no more than thirty (30) days before the date of application.

                            (i)  Is a citizen or national of the United States;