driver’s license
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Polis vetoes bill requiring driver’s education for Coloradans under 21 to get a license
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Gov. Jared Polis shot down a bill Tuesday that would have required Coloradans under the age of 21 to complete driver’s education and training to be eligible for a driver’s license. Under the bill, Coloradans younger than 18 would have had to finish a 30-hour driver’s education course and receive six hours of behind-the-wheel training…
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Colorado lawmaker wants to make driver’s license tests affordable again
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The cost of getting a driver’s license in Colorado has dramatically increased in recent years and could be getting higher with newly proposed legislation. Rep. Cathy Kipp wants to roll back these costs with House Bill 1147. If passed, Kipp’s bill would cap the price of behind-the-wheel license tests at $25 for an initial test…
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New bill would make Colorado teens take driver’s education before getting a license
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Teenagers in Colorado could soon be required to complete up to 36 hours of driver’s education to be eligible for a driver’s license, if a new bill introduced to the state legislature passes. Senate Bill 11, introduced on Tuesday, would require Coloradans under the age of 18 to take a 30-hour driver’s education course and…
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Colorado DMV launches mobile driver’s license offices
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Coloradans can now access identification cards and driver’s licenses from anywhere in the state, thanks to new mobile offices from the Division of Motor Vehicles. The DMV2GO program includes a driver’s license office on wheels inside an RV and two pop-up offices which can be set up almost anywhere. The three offices will provide all…
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Colorado now offers online test for learner’s permits
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Colorado drivers can now take the written learner’s permit test online from the comfort of their own homes, the Department of Revenue announced on Tuesday. The new service allows Coloradans to avoid taking the test at a DMV office or a private driving school, offering the test online with no appointment needed. While the test…
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COVER STORY | Colorado ends free DMV driving tests, forces drivers to spend hundreds at private companies
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It took two months and around $175 for Vivian Tran to get her driver’s license in the summer of 2020. Tran said she scheduled her written test in May and took it at the DMV in June – only to learn she had to go somewhere else for the road test. She eventually secured a…
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Bill to ease foster kids’ access to driver’s licenses passes Colorado House committee
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It’s one of the most treasured rites of passage in a teenager’s life, the day he or she gets that most coveted of adult documents: the driver’s license. But for children in Colorado’s foster care system, that rite of passage is more often than not denied. State House Bill 1023, which won unanimous approval from…
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Bipartisan bill would expand access to ID cards for undocumented immigrants
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A bipartisan bill introduced this week in the Colorado legislature would expand the state’s program for granting undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses and state identification cards from its current four offices to at least 10. Senate Bill 139 is sponsored by Republican Sens. Don Coram of Montrose and Kevin Priola of Henderson and Democratic Sen. Dominick…
