To provide workers with certain impairments employment protection.

September 6, 2005

Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

To provide workers with certain impairments employment protection.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Driver Protection Act'.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION FOR CERTAIN WORKERS.

An employee who is granted a vision waiver by the Secretary of Transportation pursuant to section 31315(a) of title 49, United States Code, may not be demoted or fired on the basis of a vision impairment, if the employee--

(1) has only 1 valid driver's license at any time;

(2) has never had a license suspended, revoked, or canceled as a result of a conviction for a moving violation;

(3) has never been convicted of a serious traffic violation as defined in section 31301 of title 49, United States Code;

(4) has never been convicted of more than 1 moving violation and such violation did not involve personal injury or significant damage to property; and

(5) has no record of an accident in which the driver was at fault.

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