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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 106 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 498 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2025 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 106 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. ANWAR, 3rd Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE MOTOR |
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| 19 | 19 | | VEHICLE KNOWLEDGE TEST IN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES, THE |
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| 20 | 20 | | INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATION AND |
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| 21 | 21 | | THE USE OF A TRANSLATOR DURING THE ON -THE-ROAD SKILLS |
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| 22 | 22 | | TEST. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 24 | 24 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 26 | 26 | | That (1) subdivision (3) of subsection (d) of section 14-36 of the 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | general statutes be amended to require the written knowledge test for a 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | motor vehicle operator's license to be administered in additional 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | languages, including, but not limited to, Bengali, Haitian Creole, Hindi, 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Nepalese, Vietnamese and Urdu; (2) section 14-38a of the general 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | statutes be amended to require the instruction manual for motor vehicle 6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | operation to be available in such additional languages; and (3) section 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | 14-36 of the general statutes be amended to permit non-English-8 |
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| 34 | 34 | | speaking applicants for the on-the-road skills test to use the services of 9 |
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| 35 | 35 | | a translator during such skills test. 10 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 37 | 37 | | To (1) require the written knowledge test for a motor vehicle operator's |
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| 38 | 38 | | license to be administered in additional languages; (2) require the Proposed Bill No. 498 |
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| 41 | 41 | | LCO No. 106 2 of 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | instruction manual for motor vehicle operation to be available in such |
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| 44 | 44 | | additional languages; and (3) permit a non-English-speaking applicant |
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| 45 | 45 | | to use a translator during the on-the-road skills test. |
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