LICENSE Act of 2025
Latest action · Jan 23, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 22, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently Act of 2025 or the LICENSE Act of 2025
This bill requires the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCA) to revise regulations to relax certain requirements related to commercial driver's license (CDL) testing.
Specifically, the FMCA must allow a state or third-party examiner who has maintained a valid CDL test examiner certification and has previously completed a CDL skills test examiner training course to administer the CDL knowledge test, so long as they have completed one unit of instruction regarding the CDL knowledge test.
The FMCA must also allow a state to administer a driving skills test to any CDL applicant regardless of the applicant's state of domicile or where the applicant received driver training.
As background, the FMCA implemented temporary waivers for similar CDL testing-related requirements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These waivers have since expired.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2025 to May 29, 2025; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-SD | Dusty Johnson | Original | Jan 22, 2025 |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Original | Jan 22, 2025 |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Original | Jan 22, 2025 |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Original | Jan 22, 2025 |
| R-OH | Troy Balderson | Original | Jan 22, 2025 |
| D-MI | Kristen McDonald Rivet | Jan 31, 2025 | |
| R-IL | Mike Bost | Feb 5, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Hillary J. Scholten | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-FL | Scott Franklin | May 29, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jan 22, 2025 |
| Highways and Transit Subcommittee | Referred Jan 23, 2025 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 23, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Jan 22, 2025Introduced in House
- Jan 22, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 13, January 22, 2025, page H300.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 191 | LICENSE Act of 2025 | Related bill | Jan 22, 2025 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To direct the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain regulations relating to the requirements for commercial driver's license testing and commercial learner's permit holders, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- LICENSE Act of 2025
- Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
