115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1393 

AN ACT 

To streamline the process by which active duty military, 

reservists, and veterans receive commercial driver’s licenses. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jobs for Our Heroes 

3 Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. MEDICAL CERTIFICATE FOR VETERANS OPERATING 

5 COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES. 

6 (a) QUALIFIED EXAMINERS.—Section 5403(d)(2) of 

7 the FAST Act (49 U.S.C. 31149 note; 129 Stat. 1548) 

8 is amended to read as follows: 

9 ‘‘(2) QUALIFIED EXAMINER.—The term ‘quali10 fied examiner’ means an individual who— 

11 ‘‘(A) is employed by the Department of 

12 Veterans Affairs as an advanced practice nurse, 

13 doctor of chiropractic, doctor of medicine, doc14 tor of osteopathy, physician assistant, or other 

15 medical professional; 

16 ‘‘(B) is licensed, certified, or registered in 

17 a State to perform physical examinations; 

18 ‘‘(C) is familiar with the standards for, 

19 and physical requirements of, an operator re20 quired to be medically certified under section 

21 31149 of title 49, United States Code; and 

22 ‘‘(D) has never, with respect to such sec23 tion, been found to have acted fraudulently, in24 cluding by fraudulently awarding a medical cer25 tificate.’’. 
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1 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 5403 of 

2 the FAST Act (49 U.S.C. 31149 note; 129 Stat. 1548) 

3 is amended— 

4 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘physician-ap5 proved veteran operator, the qualified physician’’ 

6 and inserting ‘‘veteran operator approved by a quali7 fied examiner, the qualified examiner’’; 

8 (2) in subsection (b)(1)— 

9 (A) by striking ‘‘the physician’’ and insert10 ing ‘‘the examiner’’; and 

11 (B) by striking ‘‘qualified physician’’ and 

12 inserting ‘‘qualified examiner’’; 

13 (3) in subsection (c)— 

14 (A) by striking ‘‘qualified physicians’’ and 

15 inserting ‘‘qualified examiners’’; and 

16 (B) by striking ‘‘such physicians’’ and in17 serting ‘‘such examiners’’; and 

18 (4) in subsection (d)— 

19 (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), 

20 and (3) as paragraphs (3), (1), and (2), respec21 tively, and by moving the text of paragraph (3), 

22 as redesignated, to appear after paragraph (2), 

23 as redesignated; and 

24 (B) in paragraph (3), as redesignated— 
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1 (i) in the paragraph heading, by strik2 ing ‘‘PHYSICIAN-APPROVED VETERAN OP3 ERATOR’’ and inserting ‘‘VETERAN OPER4 ATOR APPROVED BY A QUALIFIED EXAM5 INER’’; and 

6 (ii) by striking ‘‘physician-approved 

7 veteran operator’’ and inserting ‘‘veteran 

8 operator approved by a qualified exam9 iner’’. 

10 (c) RULEMAKING.—The amendments made by this 

11 section shall be incorporated into any rulemaking pro12 ceeding related to section 5403 of the FAST Act (49 

13 U.S.C. 31149 note; 129 Stat. 1548) that is being con14 ducted as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 

15 SEC. 3. COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE STANDARDS FOR 

16 CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE 

17 ARMED FORCES. 

18 Section 31305(d) of title 49, United States Code, is 

19 amended— 

20 (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ‘‘VET21 ERAN OPERATORS’’ and inserting ‘‘OPERATORS

22 WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES, RE23 SERVISTS, OR VETERANS’’; 
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1 (2) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘subpara2 graph (A) during, at least,’’ and inserting ‘‘subpara3 graph (A)— 

4 ‘‘(i) while serving in the armed forces 

5 or reserve components; and 

6 ‘‘(ii) during’’; and 

7 (3) in paragraph (2)(B)— 

8 (A) by inserting ‘‘current or’’ before 

9 ‘‘former’’ each place the term appears; and 

10 (B) by inserting ‘‘one of’’ before ‘‘the re11 serve components’’. 

Passed the Senate September 14, 2017. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 
115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1393 

AN ACT 

To streamline the process by which active duty 

cial driver’s licenses. military, reservists, and veterans receive commer-