Committee hears bill to fund driver's-licensing help for "opportunity youth," adopts authors' amendment and lays it over Senate File 2197 would create a pilot grant program to remove financial and logistical barriers to licensure for opportunity youth; authors amended funding and administration details, presenters detailed $800 per-youth caps and proposed an intermediary to administer the program, and the committee laid the bill over for possible omnibus inclusion.

A groundbreaking pilot program aims to dismantle the barriers preventing opportunity youth from obtaining their driver's licenses and accessing stable employment and housing.

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