1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; amending driver education requirements; amending 
1.3 	license examination requirements; modifying information required in driver??a??a??s 
1.4 	manual; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 171.0701; 171.13, 
1.5 	subdivision 1, by adding a subdivision.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.0701, is amended to read:
1.8 	171.0701 DRIVER EDUCATION; ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION
1.9 	INSTRUCTION RULES.
1.10 		Subdivision 1.Organ and tissue donation. The commissioner shall adopt rules 
1.11 	requiring instruction relating to organ and tissue donations and the provisions of section  
1.12 	171.07, subdivision 5, for persons enrolled in driver education programs offered at public 
1.13 	schools, private schools, and commercial driver training schools. 
1.14 		Subd. 2.Cellular or wireless telephone use. The commissioner shall adopt rules 
1.15 	requiring instruction relating to the impacts on safety from cellular or wireless telephone 
1.16 	use while operating a vehicle, for persons enrolled in driver education programs offered at 
1.17 	public schools, private schools, and commercial driver training schools.

1.18 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.13, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.19 		Subdivision 1.Examination subjects and locations; provisions for color 
1.20 	blindness, disabled veterans. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the 
1.21 	commissioner shall examine each applicant for a driver's license by such agency as the 
1.22 	commissioner directs. This examination must include a test of applicant's eyesight; 
1.23 	ability to read and understand highway signs regulating, warning, and directing traffic; 
2.1 	knowledge of traffic laws; knowledge of the effects of alcohol and drugs on a driver's 
2.2 	ability to operate a motor vehicle safely and legally, and of the legal penalties and 
2.3 	financial consequences resulting from violations of laws prohibiting the operation of 
2.4 	a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; knowledge of railroad 
2.5 	grade crossing safety; knowledge of slow-moving vehicle safety; knowledge of traffic 
2.6 	laws related to bicycles; knowledge of the impacts on safety from using a cellular or 
2.7 	wireless telephone while operating a vehicle; an actual demonstration of ability to exercise 
2.8 	ordinary and reasonable control in the operation of a motor vehicle; and other physical and 
2.9 	mental examinations as the commissioner finds necessary to determine the applicant's 
2.10 	fitness to operate a motor vehicle safely upon the highways, provided, further however, no 
2.11 	driver's license shall be denied an applicant on the exclusive grounds that the applicant's 
2.12 	eyesight is deficient in color perception. Provided, however, that war veterans operating 
2.13 	motor vehicles especially equipped for handicapped persons, shall, if otherwise entitled 
2.14 	to a license, be granted such license. The commissioner shall make provision for giving 
2.15 	these examinations either in the county where the applicant resides or at a place adjacent 
2.16 	thereto reasonably convenient to the applicant.

2.17 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.13, is amended by adding a subdivision 
2.18 	to read:
2.19 		Subd. 1i.Driver's manual; cellular or wireless telephone use. The commissioner 
2.20 	shall include in each edition of the driver's manual a section relating to cellular or wireless 
2.21 	telephone use while operating a vehicle, including basic facts about the impacts on safety 
2.22 	from using a cellular or wireless telephone while operating a vehicle, and current law 
2.23 	provisions or any changes in the law that affect cellular or wireless telephone use while 
2.24 	operating a vehicle. 

2.25 	Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.26 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. Sections 2 and 3 are 
2.27 	effective August 1, 2007.