Thursday, February 25, 2016

Nebraska Senator Dave Bloomfield has sponsored a bill LB688, requiring that driver’s exams be administered in English only, and a helmet choice law

Nebraska currently allows drivers to take exams in either English or Spanish.

Latino American advocates say that there are no studies that suggest that English speaking drivers are safer on the road.

Furthermore, according to the bill’s opponents, increasing barriers for non-English speakers to get properly licensed might just mean that more people drive illegally.

So... is the threat of illegal behavior reason to not make it illegal? Or motivation to seperate law abiding citizens from non-English speaking people who want a drivers license? Why should anyone living and working in a country not have to learn that language well enough to operate a motor vehicle, which has a operators manual in that language, which has it's parts and labels in that language, and it's radio, speedometer, and federally required safety warnings in that language?

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No state bordering Nebraska requires motorcyclists to wear a helmet, with the exception of Missouri, and so bikers avoid riding though Nebraska, depriving it of tourist dollars.

The senator estimated that an additional $7,000,000.00 would have been spent in Nebraska last year during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally alone.

This would only apply to people over 21 years old. It also makes it illegal to have children under 8 years old on a motorcycle on highways

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Last year he introduced LB191 that would have allowed veteran service organizations to be exempt from sales tax when selling food.

He told the committee at the hearing that if they could not exempt this small group then maybe they should reevaluate whether or not political functions should be exempt.

In keeping with that line of thought, he introduced LB689, which would remove the exemption provided to the sale of food at political functions.

http://news.legislature.ne.gov/dist17/
http://cdllife.com/2016/top-trucking-news/resources/retired-trucker-sponsors-bill-requiring-drivers-exams-in-english-only/

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