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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 528 By: Bergstrom
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to driver licenses; amending 47 O.S.
2021, Section 6-110, as last amended by Section 44,
Chapter 452, O.S.L. 2024 (47 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section
6-110), which relates to examination of applicants;
prohibiting Service Oklahoma from certain
consideration of criminal background check; updating
statutory language; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 47 O.S. 2021, Section 6 -110, as
last amended by Section 44, Chapter 452, O.S.L. 2024 (47 O.S. Supp.
2024, Section 6-110), is amended to read as follows:
Section 6-110. A. 1. Service Oklahoma shall establish
procedures to ensure every applicant for an original Class A, B, C ,
or D license and for any endorsements thereon is examined by Service
Oklahoma, or an approved written examination proctor, except as
otherwise provided in Section 6-101 et seq. of this title or as
provided in paragraph 2 of this subsection or in subsections D and E
of this section. Service Oklahoma is authorized to approve and
enter into agreements with third parties to act as approved written
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examination proctors with regard to any written examination required
by this section. The examination shall include a test of the
applicant’s:
a. eyesight,
b. ability to read and understand highway signs
regulating, warning, and directing traffic,
c. knowledge of the traffic laws of this state including
a portion on bicycle and motorcycle safety, and
d. ability, by actual demonstration, to exercise ordinary
and reasonable control in the operation of a motor
vehicle. The actual demonstration shall be conducted
in the type of motor vehicle for the class of driver
license being applied for.
The Department of Public Safety, in conjunction with Service
Oklahoma, may create a knowledge test that may be taken on the
Internet by an applicant applying for a Class D license .
Any licensee seeking to apply for a driver license of another class
which is not covered by the licensee ’s current driver license shall
be considered an applicant for an original license for that class.
2. Service Oklahoma shall have the authority to wa ive the
requirement of any part of the examination required in paragraph 1
of this subsection for those applicants whose driving record meets
the standards set by the Department of Public Safety and surrender
either of the following:
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a. a valid unexpired driver license issued by any state
or country for the same type or types of veh icles, or
b. an expired driver license that:
(1) is not expired more than six (6) months past the
expiration date listed on the driver license, and
(2) is not a Class A, B, or C commercial driver
license or commercial driver license permit.
3. Service Oklahoma shall accept skills test results from
another state for Class A, B , or C license applicants who have
successfully completed commercial motor vehicle driver training in
that state and successfully passed the skills test in that state;
provided, Service Oklahoma shall not accept skills test results from
another state when the applicant has not successfully completed
commercial motor vehicle driver training in that state. Noth ing in
this section shall be construed to prohibit Service Oklahoma from
administering the skills test to any applicant who has successfully
completed commercial vehicle driver training in another state.
4. All applicants requiring a hazardous materials e ndorsement
shall be required, for the renewal of the endorsement, to
successfully complete the examination and to submit to a security
threat assessment performed by the Transportation Security
Administration of the Department of Homeland Security as requi red by
and pursuant to 49 C.F.R., Part 1572, which shall be used to
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determine whether the applicant is eligible for renewal of the
endorsement pursuant to federal law and regulation.
5. Service Oklahoma, or an approved written examination
proctor, shall give the complete examination as provided for in this
section within thirty (30 ) days from the date the application is
received, and the examination shall be given at a location within
one hundred (100) miles of the residence of the applicant. Service
Oklahoma shall make every effort to make the examination locations
and times convenient for applicants. Service Oklahoma shall
consider giving the examination at any public or private site, if
economically feasible and practicable, and if Service Oklahoma and
the owner or the governing body agree.
B. Any person holding a valid Oklahom a Class D license or
provisional driver license pursuant to Section 6 -212 of this title
and applying for a Class A, B , or C commercial license shall be
required to successfully c omplete all examinations as required for
the specified class. Failure to submit to Service Oklahoma
federally required medical certification information pursuant to 49
C.F.R., Part 391.41 et seq. shall result in an automatic downgrade
of a commercial lice nse to a Class D license. Provided, however,
once the required medical certif ication information has been
received by Service Oklahoma, the license shall be reinstated to the
classification of the commercial license prior to the downgrade and
the holder of such a license shall not be required to reapply.
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C. Except as provided in subsection E of Section 6 -101 of this
title, any person holding a valid Oklahoma Class A, B , or C
commercial license shall, upon time for renewal thereof, be entitled
to a Class D license without any type of testing or examination,
except for any endorsemen ts thereon as otherwise provided for by
Section 6-110.1 of this title.
D. 1. Any certified driver education instructor who is
currently an operator or an employee of a commerci al driver training
school in this state or any driver education instructor employed by
any school district in this state shall be eligible to apply to be a
designated examiner of Service Oklahoma for the purposes of
administering the Class D driving skills portion of the Oklahoma
driving examination to any person who has been issued a learner
permit.
2. The Department of Public Safety, in conjunction with Service
Oklahoma, shall adopt a curriculum of required courses and training
to be offered to applicant s who are qualified to apply to be a
designated examiner. The courses and training for certification
shall meet the same standards as required for driver examiners of
Service Oklahoma.
3. Each person applying to be a designated examiner shall be
required to pay an initial designated examiner certification fee of
One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00). Upon successful completion of
training prescribed by paragraph 2 of this subsection, the person
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shall be required to pay an annual designated examiner certificat ion
fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). If an applicant for the
designated examiner program is employed by an Oklahoma public school
system that offers driver education, and he or she administers the
skills test only to students enrolled in a public sc hool driver
education program, the certification fee may be waived by Service
Oklahoma. Each designated examiner certification shall expire on
the last day of the calendar year and may be renewed upon
application to Service Oklahoma. The designated exami ner
certification fees collected by Service Oklahoma pursuant to this
subsection shall be deposited to the credit of the Department of
Public Safety Restricted Revolving Fund to be used for the purposes
of this subsection, through October 31, 2022. Beginn ing November 1,
2022, the designated examiner certification fees collected by
Service Oklahoma pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited to
the credit of the Service Oklahoma Revolving Fund. No designated
examiner certification fee shall be refunded in the event that
certification is denied, suspended or revoked.
4. A designated examiner may charge a fee for each Class D
driving skills examination given, whether the person being examined
passes or fails the examination.
5. Service Oklahoma shall req uire each designated examiner and
driver education instructor applicant to sub mit to an electronic
national criminal history record check pursuant to Section 150.9 of
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Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The fees for the record check
shall be borne by the d esignated examiner, designated examiner
applicant, driver education instructor, or driver education
instructor applicant. Service Oklahoma shall not take into
consideration any felonies or misdemeanors that have been resolved
prior to ten (10) years befor e the date of submission by the
applicant.
6. The Department of Public Safety , in conjunction with Service
Oklahoma, shall promulgate rules to implement and administer the
provisions of this subsection.
E. 1. Upon application and approval of Service Okl ahoma, any
public or private commercial truck driving school that has or
maintains a program instructing students for a Class A, B , or C
license, public transit agency, state, county or municipal
government agency in this state, such as local school distri cts, the
Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, or
institutions of higher education, or a private entity, shall be
authorized to hire or employ designated examiners approved by
Service Oklahoma to be third -party examiners of the Class A, B , or C
driving skills portion and/or or knowledge written portion, pursuant
to paragraph A of this section, of the Oklahoma driving examination.
All designated examiners must successfully have completed the
courses and training as outlined in paragraph 2 of this subsection.
Service Oklahoma shall be required to approve at least on e public
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transit agency that has or maintains a program instructing students
for a Class A, B, or C license to hire or employ third -party
examiners pursuant to this section. It shall be permissible for any
public transit agency operating in the State of Oklahoma to utilize
the third-party examiners hired or employed by a public transit
agency approved by Service Oklahoma.
2. The Department of Public Safety, in conjunction with S ervice
Oklahoma, shall adopt a curriculum of required courses and training
to be offered to third-party examiners. The courses and training
for certification shall meet the same standards as required for
commercial driver examiners of Service Oklahoma.
3. Service Oklahoma shall require each third -party examiner
applicant and commercial school driver education instructor
applicant to submit to an electronic national criminal history
record check pursuant to Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma
Statutes. On or before December 1, 2022, Service Oklahoma shall
require each third-party examiner or commercial school driver
education instructor to submit to an electronic national criminal
history record check pursuant to Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the
Oklahoma Statutes. The fees for the background check shall be borne
by the third-party examiner, third -party examiner applicant,
commercial school driver education instructor or commercial school
driver education instructor applicant. Service Oklahoma shall not
take into consideration any felonies or misdemeanors that have been
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resolved prior to ten (10) years before the date of submission by
the applicant.
F. Service Oklahoma shall promulgate rules to:
1. Implement and administer the provisions of this sec tion
based on requirements set forth in Section 383.75 of Title 49 of the
Code of Federal Regulations;
2. Establish a process to inform any school, public transit
agency, examiner, or state, county , or municipal government agency,
who has been denied, wit hin forty-five (45) days from the denial;
3. Create an appeal process for any school, public transit
agency, examiner, or state, county , or municipal government agency
denied; and
4. If the initial application for approval was denied, limit
the number of times an individual school, public transit agency,
individual examiner applicant, or state, county , or municipal
government agency may reapply in a calendar year to two
reapplications.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1 , 2025.
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