Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

PRINTER'S NO.   3349
                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 2431
                                                 Session of
                                                   2024
     INTRODUCED BY KHAN, SCHEMEL, PASHINSKI, CONKLIN, MOUL, HAMM,
        HILL-EVANS, STAMBAUGH, ROZZI, COOK, BANTA, TWARDZIK,
        M. JONES, METZGAR AND STEHR, JUNE 20, 2024
     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 20, 2024
                                      AN ACT
 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
    Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for
    vehicles exempt from registration; and, in licensing of
    drivers, further providing for persons exempt from licensing.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby enacts as follows:
    Section 1.      Sections 1302 and 1502 of Title 75 of the
 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended by adding
 paragraphs to read:
 § 1302.    Vehicles exempt from registration.
    The following types of vehicles are exempt from registration:
           * * *
           (2.3)   Any implement of husbandry, trailer or semitrailer
    used for agricultural operations and operated by an
    individual upon highways between a farm that is the
    individual's residence and a school that is hosting an annual
    agriculture-related educational event for the purpose of
    participating in that event, provided that the distance
    between the individual's residence and the site of the event
    does not exceed 25 miles.
           * * *
 § 1502.    Persons exempt from licensing.
    The following persons are not required to obtain a driver's
 license under this chapter:
           * * *
           (6)   Any individual 14 years of age or older may operate
    an implement of husbandry, trailer or semitrailer not to
    exceed 11 feet in width on a roadway for the purpose of
    driving that implement between sunrise and sunset to an
    annual agriculture-related educational event hosted by a
    school, provided that the distance between the individual's
    residence and the site of the event does not exceed 25 miles.
    Section 2.     This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected: 
Printer's No. 3349: 75-1302, 75-1502