Bill Text: NY S05076 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S05076-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5076

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 18, 2025
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        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.
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