New York S 5076: Relates to the minimum age of eligibility for certain commercial driver's licenses

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S05076 Summary:

BILL NOS05076 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGRIFFO

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COSPNSRHELMING, OBERACKER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §502, V & T L

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Lowers the age of eligibility from 21 to 18 for a class A license or for a commercial driver's license which contains an H or an X endorsement or which is valid for operation in interstate commerce.

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BILL NOS05076 

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02/18/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5076

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, HELMING, OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
 portation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the minimum
 age of eligibility for certain commercial driver's licenses

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehi-
 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 618 of the laws of 2021, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) An applicant for a commercial driver's license [which contains an
 5 H or an X endorsement or] which is valid for operation in interstate
 6 commerce shall be at least twenty-one years of age; provided, however,
 7 that an applicant for a class A license or for a commercial driver's
 8 license which contains an H or an X endorsement or which is valid for
 9 operation only in intrastate commerce shall be at least eighteen years
 10 of age.
 11 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehicle and
 12 traffic law, as amended by chapter 520 of the laws of 1991, is amended
 13 to read as follows:
 14 (a) An applicant for a class A license or for a commercial driver's
 15 license [which contains an H or an X endorsement or] which is valid for
 16 operation in interstate commerce shall be at least twenty-one years of
 17 age; provided, however, that an applicant for a class A license or for a
 18 commercial driver's license which contains an H or an X endorsement or
 19 which is valid for operation only in intrastate commerce shall be at
 20 least eighteen years of age.
 21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 22 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to
 23 paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic
 24 law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the repeal and
 25 reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 4 of chapter 618 of the
 26 laws of 2021, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section
 27 two of this act shall take effect.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08560-01-5

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