S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1046
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO, LEMONDES, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MILLER,
MORINELLO -- 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 THEIR 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 COMMISSIONER,
INDICATING THAT THEY NEED SUCH COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE TO PERFORM
THEIR EMPLOYMENT AND THAT SUCH DRIVER SHALL ONLY BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE
THEIR WORK VEHICLE WHILE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT. UPON
RECEIPT OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENT THE COMMISSIONER 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.
LBD02674-01-5
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