It will be easier to learn to drive. Parliament has indeed definitively adopted on Monday a bill of the majority to better inform young people about the financing of the driving license and to reduce the time before the exam.
The National Assembly voted one last time almost unanimously (70 against 1) this text carried by Sacha Houlié, Renaissance deputy and president of the law commission. The elected representative of Vienne wants to make obtaining the permit “more accessible, faster and cheaper”.
Fundraising made easy
The bill provides for a new digital platform, “a young person, a permit”, in order to identify all state and community aid. The candidate will only have to indicate his postal code to find out about the financing available in his territory. The platform will be managed by Pôle emploi, according to a government amendment.
The text also opens up financing by the personal training account (CPF) to all types of permits, in particular motorcycles and carts, from January 1, 2024, whereas currently only B permits, heavy goods vehicles and buses are concerned. The CPF made it possible to finance 322,000 driving licenses in 2021, or 28% of the licenses issued that year, two thirds of the beneficiaries being people under the age of 35.
Reduced lead times
On the question of deadlines, in order to offer more examination slots, the authorization for public or contractual officials to pass the practical test of the license will be extended to the national level. The senators wanted to make the text more restrictive by asking for “a sufficient number of agents to guarantee that the median period between two” passages of the permit by the same candidate “does not exceed forty-five days”.
With a favorable opinion from the government, the Senate also added an amendment that aligns the penalties for assaulting a traffic examiner with those for assaulting a driver’s license inspector. Finally, the text also provides for a report to study the possibility of lowering the age of the passage of the driving license to 16 years, instead of 17 or 18 years.