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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3781
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
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 520 of the laws of 1991, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) An applicant for a class A license or for a commercial driver's
5 license [which contains an H or an X endorsement or] which is valid for
6 operation in interstate commerce shall be at least twenty-one years of
7 age; provided, however, that an applicant for a class A license or for a
8 commercial driver's license which contains an H or an X endorsement or
9 which is valid for operation only in intrastate commerce shall be at
10 least eighteen years of age.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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