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