Bill Text: NY A06295 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-15 - signed chap.618 [A06295 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06295-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6295

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 12, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LUPARDO, BRONSON, ABBATE, BUTTENSCHON, CRUZ,
          EPSTEIN, SIMON,  TAYLOR,  PALMESANO,  DeSTEFANO,  MIKULIN,  McDONOUGH,
          SALKA,  SCHMITT,  WALCZYK  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY,
          BLANKENBUSH, THIELE -- read once and  referred  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:

     1    Section 1.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 2 of section 502  of
     2  the  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 520 of the laws of
     3  1991, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) An applicant for a [class A license or for a] commercial  driver's
     5  license  which  contains  an H or an X endorsement or which is valid for
     6  operation in interstate commerce shall be at least twenty-one  years  of
     7  age.
     8    (b)  Except as provided in paragraph (a) of this subdivision an appli-
     9  cant for a class A, B, C or E license shall be at least  eighteen  years
    10  of age.
    11    §  2.  Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a new
    12  subdivision 36 to read as follows:
    13    36. (a) To promulgate, in consultation with the  department  of  motor
    14  vehicles,  rules and regulations to establish and implement a commercial
    15  driver's license (CDL) class A young adult licensing program.
    16    (i) Such rules and regulations shall be no less protective  of  public
    17  safety than the rules and regulations promulgated by the federal govern-
    18  ment  with respect to the training of entry-level commercial motor vehi-
    19  cle operators. The regulations  shall  set  forth  the  criteria  to  be
    20  included  in  the  training program and shall be no less than the entry-
    21  level driver training  requirements  prescribed  by  the  United  States

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10374-01-1
        A. 6295                             2

     1  secretary  of  transportation  under Appendices A, C, D and E to section
     2  380 of title 49 of the United States code as amended from time to time.
     3    (ii)  Such  rules  and  regulations  shall  include no less than three
     4  hundred hours of behind-the-wheel training with  an  experienced  driver
     5  upon completion of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.
     6    (b)  For  purposes of this subdivision, the following terms shall have
     7  the following meanings:
     8    (i) "young adult" shall mean an individual  who  ranges  in  age  from
     9  eighteen to twenty years old;
    10    (ii) "experienced driver" shall mean an individual who (A) is not less
    11  than twenty-one years of age, (B) has held a commercial driver's license
    12  for  at  least  a  two-year period, (C) has had no preventable accidents
    13  reportable to the United States secretary of transportation  or  pointed
    14  moving  violations for at least a one-year period, and (D) has a minimum
    15  of one year of experience driving a commercial vehicle in commerce.
    16    (c) Such pilot program shall provide  qualified  young  adult  drivers
    17  with a CDL class A driver's license.
    18    §  3.  This  act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
    19  court of competent jurisdiction determines that this  act  would  render
    20  New York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds.
    21    §  4.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
    22  section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
    23  diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
    24  date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in  its  operation  to
    25  the  clause,  sentence,  subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
    26  directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
    27  been rendered.
    28    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the commis-
    29  sioner  of  transportation  shall  notify  the legislative bill drafting
    30  commission upon the occurrence of the repeal of this act provided for in
    31  section three of this act in order that the commission may  maintain  an
    32  accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws
    33  of  the  state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions
    34  of section 44 of the legislative law and  section  70-b  of  the  public
    35  officers law.