HB 205 — An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in licensing of drivers, further providing for determination of incompetency.

PRINTER'S NO.   153

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 205
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY McNEILL, HILL-EVANS, ISAACSON, FREEMAN, GIRAL,
        PIELLI AND HOWARD, JANUARY 17, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 17, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in licensing of drivers, further providing for
 3      determination of incompetency.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.    Section 1519(c) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
 8   adding a subsection to read:
 9   § 1519.    Determination of incompetency.
10      * * *
11      (c)    Recall [or suspension] of operating privilege.--The
12   department shall recall the operating privilege of any person
13   whose incompetency has been established under the provisions of
14   this chapter or who refuses or fails to comply with the
15   requirements of this section. The recall shall be for an
16   indefinite period until that person complies and satisfactory
17   evidence is presented to the department in accordance with
18   regulations to establish that such person is competent to drive
 1   a motor vehicle. [The department shall suspend the operating
 2   privilege of any person who refuses or fails to comply with the
 3   requirements of this section until that person does comply and
 4   that person's competency to drive is established.] Any person
 5   aggrieved by the recall [or suspension] of the operating
 6   privilege may appeal in the manner provided in section 1550. The
 7   judicial review shall be limited to whether the person is
 8   competent to drive in accordance with the provisions of the
 9   regulations promulgated under section 1517 (relating to Medical
10   Advisory Board).
11      (d)     Vehicle lease termination on incompetency.--For a
12   consumer lease of a motor vehicle subject to regulations of the
13   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under 12 CFR Ch. X Pt. 1013
14   (relating to consumer leasing (Regulation M)), entered into
15   after the effective date of this subsection, a lessee requesting
16   early termination of a lease shall not be liable for any penalty
17   or early termination charge provided by the lease if the vehicle
18   lessee's operating privileges have been recalled under this
19   section and no other member of the lessee's household regularly
20   uses the vehicle. A lessee seeking to terminate a lease under
21   this subsection must provide to the lessor a copy of the notice
22   of license recall provided by the department. The lease shall be
23   terminated upon return of the vehicle to the lessor or other
24   person in the manner provided by the lease, including in any
25   amendment or lease assignment or notice.
26      Section 2.    This act shall apply to leases for motor vehicles
27   entered into with a lessee with a billing address located in
28   this Commonwealth on or after the effective date of this
29   section.
30      Section 3.    This act shall take effect in 180 days.

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