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                                  8979--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2022
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  KENNEDY  -- (at request of the Department of Motor
   Vehicles) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to  be
   committed  to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged,
   bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
   committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the period
   for which commercial learner's permits are valid
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 503 of the vehi-
 cle  and traffic law, as amended by section 3 of part I of chapter 58 of
 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) An application for a license shall be valid for a period  of  time
 specified  by regulation of the commissioner not to exceed five years. A
 learner's permit shall be valid from its issuance until  the  expiration
 of  the  application  for  a  driver's  license for which it was issued.
 Provided, however, a commercial learner's permit shall be valid  for  no
 more  than  [one  hundred  eighty  days,  except that such permit may be
 renewed, in the commissioner's discretion, for an additional one hundred
 eighty days] SUCH TIME AS PERMITTED BY SECTION 31308 OF TITLE 49 OF  THE
 UNITED  STATES  CODE  AND PART 383.25 OF TITLE 49 OF THE CODE OF FEDERAL
 REGULATIONS.   Provided, however, that  a  commercial  learner's  permit
 issued  by  the  commissioner  in  connection  with an application for a
 commercial driver's license shall be cancelled within sixty days of  the
 holder's  medical  certification  status  becoming "not-certified" based
 upon: (i) the  expiration  of  the  holder's  medical  certification  or
 medical  variance  documentation  required  by the federal motor carrier
 safety improvement act of 1999 and Part 383.71(h) of  title  49  of  the
 code  of  federal  regulations; (ii) the holder's failure to submit such
 medical certification or medical variance documentation at  such  inter-
 vals  as required by the federal motor carrier safety improvement act of
 1999 and Part 383.71(h) of title 49 of the code of  federal  regulations
 and  in a manner prescribed by the commissioner; or (iii) the receipt by
 the commissioner of information from the issuing medical examiner or the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 federal motor carrier safety administration that a medical certification
 or medical variance was issued in error or rescinded.  The  commissioner
 shall, upon a holder's status becoming "not-certified", notify the hold-
 er  of  such  commercial  learner's  permit  issued in connection with a
 commercial driver's license application  by  first  class  mail  to  the
 address  of  such  person  on file with the department or at the current
 address provided by the United States  postal  service  of  his  or  her
 "not-certified"  medical  certification  status  and that the commercial
 motor vehicle privileges of such commercial  learner's  permit  will  be
 cancelled  unless he or she submits a current medical certificate and/or
 medical variance in accordance with Part 383.71(h) of title  49  of  the
 code  of federal regulations or changes his or her self-certification to
 driving only in excepted or intrastate commerce in accordance with  Part
 383.71(b)  (1)  (ii),  (iii)  or (iv) of title 49 of the code of federal
 regulations.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.