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Assembly Bill A1748

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or termination of insurance if a person needs such license to perform employment

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2019-A1748 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §318, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3989
2011-2012: A2773
2013-2014: A2162
2015-2016: A1462
2017-2018: A1301
2021-2022: A5307
2023-2024: A2619
2025-2026: A1046

2019-A1748 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or termination of insurance if a person needs such license to perform his or her employment.

2019-A1748 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1748
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, FINCH, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of  A. HAWLEY, MONTESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
   for  the  continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or
   termination of insurance

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  318 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  COMMERCIAL
 DRIVER'S  LICENSE  OF  A  PERSON  WHO HAS HAD HIS OR HER REGISTRATION OR
 LICENSE REVOKED OR SUSPENDED PURSUANT TO ANY PROVISION OF  THIS  SECTION
 SHALL  NOT  BE  REVOKED OR SUSPENDED PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON HAS FILED
 WITH THE COMMISSIONER A STATEMENT, IN A FORM PRESCRIBED BY  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER, INDICATING THAT HE OR SHE NEEDS SUCH COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE
 TO  PERFORM  HIS  OR  HER  EMPLOYMENT AND THAT SUCH DRIVER SHALL ONLY BE
 ALLOWED TO DRIVE HIS OR HER WORK VEHICLE WHILE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS
 OR HER EMPLOYMENT. UPON RECEIPT OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENT  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER  SHALL RESTRICT THE DRIVER TO A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE UNTIL
 NEW PROOF OF FINANCIAL SECURITY HAS BEEN SECURED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03037-01-9

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