District of Columbia legislation · 26th Council
District of Columbia B554: Commercial Driver’s License Amendment Act of 2025
Status: Signed into law, October 23, 2026
What the bill says
To amend the District ofColumbia TrafficAct, 1925, to makea conformingamendment. act may be cited as the "Commercial Driver's License Amendment Actof2026". Sec. 2. The Uniform Classification and Commercial Driver's License Act of 1990, effectiveSeptember 20, 1990 (D.C. Law 8-161; D.C. Official Code § 50-401 etseg.), is amended as follows: (a) Section 2(2) (D.C. Official Code § 50-401(2)) is amended bystrikingthephrase"the informational system establishedpursuant to the Commercial MotorVehicle SafetyAct of1986, approved October 27, 1986 (100 Stat. 3207; 49U.S.C. sec. 2701 etseq.) ("Commercial M.
From the enrolled text, October 16, 2026:
to amend the District ofColumbia TrafficAct, 1925, to makea conformingamendment. act may be cited as the "Commercial Driver's License Amendment Actof2026". Sec. 2. The Uniform Classification and Commercial Driver's License Act of 1990, effectiveSeptember 20, 1990 (D.C. Law 8-161; D.C. Official Code § 50-401 etseg.), is amended as follows: (a) Section 2(2) (D.C. Official Code § 50-401(2)) is amended bystrikingthephrase"the informational system establishedpursuant to the Commercial MotorVehicle SafetyAct of1986, approved October 27, 1986 (100 Stat. 3207; 49U.S.C. sec. 2701 etseq.) ("Commercial Motor Vehicle SafetyAct")," and insertingthephrase"theinformation system maintained by the Secretary ofTransportation pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 31309"in itsplace. (b) Section3 (D.C, Official Code§ 50-402) is amended as follows: (1) Paragraph (1) is amendedby strikingthephrase"undersection 12005(a) of the CommercialMotorVehicleSafety Act (49 U.S.C. sec. 2704(a));" and insertingthe phrase "under49 U.S.C. § 31305;" in its place. (2) The lead-inlanguage ofparagraph (7) is amended by striking thephrase "to section 12007 ofthe Commercial MotorVehicle SafetyAct (49 U.S.C. sec, 2706)" and inserting thephrase"to49 U.S.C. § 31309" in its place. (3) Paragraph (8) is amended by strikingthephrase"by section 12009ofthe Commercial MotorVehicle SafetyAct (49 U.S.C. sec. 2708)." and insertingthephrase "by 49 U.S.C. § 31311." in its place. (0) Section 7 (D.C. Official Code § 50-406) is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 7. Disqualification. "The Mayorshall disqualify aperson from the operation ofacommercial motor vehicle if. L ENROLLED …