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Senate Bill S4121

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the minimum age of eligibility for certain commercial driver's licenses

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2021-S4121 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §502, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8417
2019-2020: S3781
2023-2024: S4022
2025-2026: S5076

2021-S4121 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2021-S4121 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4121 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4121
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. GRIFFO, HELMING -- 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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the  vehi-
 cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 520 of the laws of 1991, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) An applicant 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 shall be at least twenty-one  years  of
 age; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AN APPLICANT 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 ONLY IN INTRASTATE  COMMERCE  SHALL  BE  AT
 LEAST EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04112-01-1

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