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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2023
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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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