NY State Senate Bill S5486A

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Nov 15, 2021	signed chap.618
Nov 03, 2021	delivered to governor
Jun 10, 2021	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1780 substituted for s5486a
Jun 10, 2021	substituted by a6295a ordered to third reading cal.1780 committee discharged and committed to rules
May 21, 2021	print number 5486a
May 21, 2021	amend (t) and recommit to transportation
Mar 08, 2021	referred to transportation

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S5486 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6295
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §502, V & T L; amd §14, Transp L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: A10140

S5486 - Summary

Establishes a commercial driver's license (CDL) class A young adult training program for qualified 18-20 year olds; provides for the repeal of the act if any federal agency or court determines that the act would render the state ineligible for receipt of federal funds.

S5486 - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S5486

SPONSOR: KENNEDY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation law,
in relation to establishing a commercial driver's license (CDL) class A
young adult licensing pilot program

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To create a young adult commercial driver's license (CDL) Class A
licensing pilot program.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the
vehicles and traffic law.

Section 2: Amends section 14 of the transportation law to add a new
subdivision 36 to create rules for the pilot program. This establishes

who can supervise young adult drivers, requirements for the program, and
future reporting of the program results.

Section 3: Repeals act if any federal agency determines that the act
would render NYS ineligible for federal funds.

Section 4: Severability.

Section 5: Establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York's Commercial Drivers are the backbone of the state's economy.
The American Transportation Research Institute claims the trucking
industry is responsible for more than 275,000 jobs, or 1 out of 27 in
the state, and pays wages in excess of $13.6 billion annually.  s.k
However, New York's trucking industry is finding it increasingly diffi-
cult to recruit commercial drivers to supply the state's 38,580 trucking
companies, most of them small, locally owned businesses. An analysis
commissioned by the American Trucking Association concluded that as of
the end of 2017 the industry had a 50,000-driver shortage.  With the
industry estimating it needs to hire 890,000 drivers over the next 10
years.

Currently New York allows 18 to 20-year old's to obtain a CDL Class B
license to drive within state lines but does not allow those same driv-
ers to obtain a CDL Class A. Class A CDL licenses allow drivers to oper-
ate tractor-trailers and other vehicles that are too large for a Class B
CDL. A young adult commercial driver's license pilot program, with
strict training and safety guidelines, would allow 18 to 20-year-olds to
drive in New York could help attract more young people into the field.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Formerly A-10140 of 2020, died in the Transportation Committee.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

This legislation has no fiscal implications.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effective immediately

S5486 - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5486
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 and the transportation  law,
   in  relation to establishing a commercial driver's license (CDL) class
   A young adult licensing pilot program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of
 the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 520 of  the  laws  of
 1991, are 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.
   (b) Except as provided in paragraph (a) of this subdivision an  appli-
 cant  for  a class A, B, C or E license shall be at least eighteen years
 of age.
   § 2. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding  a  new
 subdivision 36 to read as follows:
   36.  (A)  TO  PROMULGATE, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR
 VEHICLES, RULES AND REGULATIONS TO ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT A  COMMERCIAL
 DRIVER'S LICENSE (CDL) CLASS A YOUNG ADULT LICENSING PROGRAM.
   (I)  SUCH  RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL BE NO LESS PROTECTIVE OF PUBLIC
 SAFETY THAN THE RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERN-
 MENT WITH RESPECT TO THE TRAINING OF ENTRY-LEVEL COMMERCIAL MOTOR  VEHI-
 CLE  OPERATORS.  THE  REGULATIONS  SHALL  SET  FORTH  THE CRITERIA TO BE
 INCLUDED IN THE TRAINING PROGRAM AND SHALL BE NO LESS  THAN  THE  ENTRY-
 LEVEL  DRIVER  TRAINING  REQUIREMENTS  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE UNITED STATES
 SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION UNDER APPENDICES A, C, D AND  E  TO  SECTION
 380 OF TITLE 49 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10374-01-1

 S. 5486                             2
 
   (II)  SUCH  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  SHALL  INCLUDE NO LESS THAN THREE
 HUNDRED HOURS OF BEHIND-THE-WHEEL TRAINING WITH  AN  EXPERIENCED  DRIVER
 UPON COMPLETION OF SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
   (B)  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (I) "YOUNG ADULT" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL  WHO  RANGES  IN  AGE  FROM
 EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY YEARS OLD;
   (II) "EXPERIENCED DRIVER" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL WHO (A) IS NOT LESS
 THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE, (B) HAS HELD A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE
 FOR  AT  LEAST  A  TWO-YEAR PERIOD, (C) HAS HAD NO PREVENTABLE ACCIDENTS
 REPORTABLE TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION  OR  POINTED
 MOVING  VIOLATIONS FOR AT LEAST A ONE-YEAR PERIOD, AND (D) HAS A MINIMUM
 OF ONE YEAR OF EXPERIENCE DRIVING A COMMERCIAL VEHICLE IN COMMERCE.
   (C) SUCH PILOT PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE  QUALIFIED  YOUNG  ADULT  DRIVERS
 WITH A CDL CLASS A DRIVER'S LICENSE.
   §  3.  This  act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
 court of competent jurisdiction determines that this  act  would  render
 New York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds.
   §  4.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
 section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
 diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
 date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in  its  operation  to
 the  clause,  sentence,  subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
 directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
 been rendered.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the commis-
 sioner  of  transportation  shall  notify  the legislative bill drafting
 commission upon the occurrence of the repeal of this act provided for in
 section three of this act in order that the commission may  maintain  an
 accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws
 of  the  state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions
 of section 44 of the legislative law and  section  70-b  of  the  public
 officers law.

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S5486A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6295
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §502, V & T L; amd §14, Transp L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: A10140

S5486A (ACTIVE) - Summary

S5486A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S5486A

SPONSOR: KENNEDY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation law,
in relation to establishing a commercial driver's license (CDL) class A
young adult training program

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To create a young adult commercial driver's license (CDL) Class A
licensing program.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the
vehicles and traffic law.

Section 2: Subdivision 5 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law
is amended by adding a new paragraph (d). This establishes the completed

requirement of a CDL class A young training program before licensing.

Section 3: Section 144 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
new Subdivision 36.

Section 4: This section would repeal this act if NY became ineligible
for the receipt of federal funds.

Section 5: Severability.

Section 6: Establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York's Commercial Drivers are the backbone of the state's economy.
The American Transportation Research Institute claims the trucking
industry is responsible for more than 275,000 jobs, or 1 out of 27 in
the state, and pays wages in excess of $13.6 billion annually.  However,
New York's trucking industry is finding it increasingly difficult to
recruit commercial drivers to supply the state's 38,580 trucking compa-
nies, most of them small, locally owned businesses. An analysis commis-
sioned by the American Trucking Association concluded that as of the end
of 2017 the industry had a 50,000-driver shortage.  With the industry
estimating it needs to hire 890,000 drivers over the next 10 years.

Currently New York allows 18 to 20-year old's to obtain a CDL Class B
license to drive within state lines but does not allow those same driv-
ers to obtain a CDL Class A. Class A CDL licenses allow drivers to oper-
ate tractor-trailers and other vehicles that are too large for a Class B
CDL. A young adult commercial driver's license training program, with
strict training and safety guidelines, would allow 18 to 20-year-olds to
drive in New York could help attract more young people into the field.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Formerly S.5486/A-10140 of 2020, died in the Transportation Committee.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
This legislation has no fiscal implications.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day.

S5486A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5486--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  KENNEDY, HINCHEY, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation  law,
   in  relation to establishing a commercial driver's license (CDL) class
   A young adult training program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of
 the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 520 of  the  laws  of
 1991, are 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.
   (b) Except as provided in paragraph (a) of this subdivision an  appli-
 cant  for  a class A, B, C or E license shall be at least eighteen years
 of age.
   § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 502 of the vehicle and  traffic  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
   (D)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  NOT ISSUE A CLASS A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S
 LICENSE TO A PERSON WHO  IS  EIGHTEEN,  NINETEEN  OR  TWENTY  YEARS  OLD
 UNLESS,  IN  ADDITION  TO  MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS CHAPTER WITH
 RESPECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF COMMERCIAL  DRIVER'S  LICENSES,  SUCH  PERSON
 SUBMITS  ACCEPTABLE  PROOF  OF  SUCCESSFUL  COMPLETION OF THE COMMERCIAL
 DRIVER'S LICENSE (CDL) CLASS A YOUNG ADULT TRAINING PROGRAM  ESTABLISHED
 BY THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THIRTY-SIX
 OF  SECTION  FOURTEEN OF THE TRANSPORTATION LAW, AND PROOF OF COMPLETION
 OF THE MINIMUM HOURS OF SUPERVISED DRIVING REQUIRED BY SUCH SUBDIVISION.
 THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PLACE AN "INTRASTATE  ONLY"  RESTRICTION  ON  ANY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD10374-05-1

 S. 5486--A                          2
 
 CLASS  A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ISSUED TO A PERSON WHO IS EIGHTEEN,
 NINETEEN OR TWENTY YEARS OLD AND SUCH  RESTRICTION  SHALL  REMAIN  UNTIL
 SUCH PERSON TURNS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE.
   §  3.  Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 36 to read as follows:
   36. (A) TO PROMULGATE, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF  MOTOR
 VEHICLES,  RULES AND REGULATIONS TO ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT A COMMERCIAL
 DRIVER'S LICENSE (CDL) CLASS A YOUNG ADULT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR CLASS  A
 COMMERCIAL  DRIVER'S  LICENSE  APPLICANTS  WHO ARE EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN OR
 TWENTY YEARS OLD.
   (B) SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL BE NO LESS PROTECTIVE  OF  PUBLIC
 SAFETY  THAN  THE RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE FEDERAL MOTOR
 CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION WITH RESPECT TO THE TRAINING OF ENTRY-LEV-
 EL COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATORS. SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL:
   (I) SET FORTH THE REQUIREMENTS OF, AND CRITERIA TO BE INCLUDED IN, THE
 TRAINING PROGRAM WHICH SHALL BE NO  LESS  THAN  THE  ENTRY-LEVEL  DRIVER
 TRAINING  REQUIREMENTS  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY
 ADMINISTRATION UNDER APPENDICES A, C, D AND E OF PART 380 OF TITLE 49 OF
 THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, AS MAY BE AMENDED FROM  TIME  TO  TIME;
 AND
   (II)  INCLUDE  NO  LESS  THAN  THREE HUNDRED HOURS OF BEHIND-THE-WHEEL
 TRAINING UNDER THE IMMEDIATE SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF  AN  EXPERIENCED
 DRIVER.
   (C)  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (I) "YOUNG ADULT" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS  EIGHTEEN,  NINETEEN
 OR TWENTY YEARS OLD.
   (II) "EXPERIENCED DRIVER" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL WHO:
   (A) IS NOT LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE;
   (B)  HOLDS  A  VALID  CLASS A COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE WHICH IS NOT
 SUSPENDED, REVOKED OR CANCELLED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAP-
 TER, THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, OR RULES AND  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED
 THEREUNDER  AND  HAS  HELD SUCH COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR AT LEAST
 TWO YEARS;
   (C) HAS NOT, FOR AT LEAST A ONE-YEAR PERIOD: BEEN THE  OPERATOR  OF  A
 MOTOR  VEHICLE  INVOLVED  IN AN ACCIDENT REPORTABLE TO THE FEDERAL MOTOR
 CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, OR BEEN  THE  OPERATOR  OF  A  COMMERCIAL
 MOTOR  VEHICLE INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT REPORTABLE TO THE COMMISSIONER OF
 MOTOR VEHICLES, OR BEEN CONVICTED OF A  SERIOUS  TRAFFIC  VIOLATION,  OR
 BEEN  CONVICTED OF ANY VIOLATION OF TITLE VII OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC
 LAW FOR WHICH THE COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR  VEHICLES  ASSESSES  POINTS,  OR
 BEEN  DISQUALIFIED FROM OPERATING A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE PURSUANT TO
 THIS CHAPTER, THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC  LAW,  OR  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS
 PROMULGATED THEREUNDER; AND
   (D)  HAS  A  MINIMUM OF ONE YEAR OF EXPERIENCE DRIVING, IN COMMERCE, A
 COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE WHICH CAN ONLY  BE  OPERATED  WITH  A  CLASS  A
 COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE.
   (III)  "SERIOUS TRAFFIC VIOLATION" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS SUCH
 TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED TEN-A OF THE
 VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   § 4. This act shall be deemed repealed if any  federal  agency  deter-
 mines  in  writing  that this act would render New York state ineligible
 for the receipt of federal funds or any court of competent  jurisdiction
 finally  determines  that  this  act  would render New York state out of
 compliance with federal law or regulation.

 S. 5486--A                          3
 
   § 5. Severability. If any clause,  sentence,  subdivision,  paragraph,
 section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
 diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
 date  the  remainder  thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to
 the  clause,  sentence,  subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
 directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
 been rendered.
   § 6. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of transpor-
 tation shall notify the legislative bill drafting  commission  upon  the
 occurrence  of  the  repeal  of this act provided for in section four of
 this act in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and time-
 ly effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state  of
 New  York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of
 the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A6295 - Signed by Governor

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Michelle Hinchey

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S5486 - Details

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Patrick M. Gallivan

Michelle Hinchey

Jessica Ramos

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