[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3652 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3652

   To provide workers with certain impairments employment protection.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2005

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   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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