C. Each license issued pursuant to this section expires one year from the date of issuance. The fee for the renewal of a driver education school license is $125. The fee for the renewal of a driver education teacher or instructor license is $80.

D. A noncommercial driver education school that offers driver education for course credit and does not charge a fee for driver education is exempt from the license fees required in this subsection. A driver education teacher employed by and providing driver education only in a school exempt from license fees in accordance with this paragraph is also exempt from license fees required in this subsection.

This subsection takes effect January 1, 1997.

Sec. 3. 29-A MRSA §1355, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 505, §16 and affected by §22, is repealed.

Sec. 4. 29-A MRSA §1357 is enacted to read:

§1357. Communication services for deaf and hard-of-hearing

persons

1.__Definitions.__As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

A.__"CART" means computer-assisted real-time transcription using specialized equipment to transcribe real-time word- for-word spoken English into written English that can be viewed on a computer screen or projected onto a large screen.

B.__"CART provider" means a person who provides CART.

C.__"Deaf person" means a person whose sense of hearing is nonfunctional for the purpose of communication and who must depend primarily upon visual communication.

D.__"Hard-of-hearing person" means a person who has a hearing loss resulting in a functional loss, but not to the extent that the person must depend primarily upon visual communication.