Bill Text: NY S08417 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-07 - PRINT NUMBER 8417A [S08417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08417-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8417--A
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee
        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.
                                                                   LBD15779-02-8
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