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Senate Bill S5076

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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2025-S5076 (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
2021-2022: S4121
2023-2024: S4022

2025-S5076 (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.

2025-S5076 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5076 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5076
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, HELMING, OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered
   printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
   portation
 
 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 618 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) An applicant 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. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehicle  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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it  shall  have  become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to
 paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic
 law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the  repeal  and
 reversion  of such paragraph pursuant to section 4 of chapter 618 of the
 laws of 2021, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of  section
 two of this act shall take effect.

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