Bill Text: NY A10140 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes a commercial driver's license (CDL) class A young adult licensing pilot 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: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-12 - referred to transportation [A10140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10140-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10140

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 12, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. LUPARDO, BRONSON, ABBATE, BUTTENSCHON, CRESPO,
          CRUZ, EPSTEIN, McDONALD, MOSLEY,  SIMON,  TAYLOR,  CROUCH,  DeSTEFANO,
          MIKULIN,  McDONOUGH,  SALKA, SCHMITT, WALCZYK -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, THIELE -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend 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. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 36 to read as follows:
     3    36. (a) To promulgate, in consultation with the  department  of  motor
     4  vehicles,  rules and regulations to establish and implement a commercial
     5  driver's license (CDL) class A young adult licensing program.
     6    (i) Such rules and regulations shall be no less protective  of  public
     7  safety than the rules and regulations promulgated by the federal govern-
     8  ment  with respect to the training of entry-level commercial motor vehi-
     9  cle operators. The regulations  shall  set  forth  the  criteria  to  be
    10  included  in  the  training program and shall be no less than the entry-
    11  level driver training  requirements  prescribed  by  the  United  States
    12  secretary  of  transportation  under Appendices A, C, D and E to section
    13  380 of title 49 of the United States code as amended from time to time.
    14    (ii) Such rules and regulations  shall  include  no  less  than  three
    15  hundred  hours  of  behind-the-wheel training with an experienced driver
    16  upon completion of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.
    17    (b) For purposes of this subdivision, the following terms  shall  have
    18  the following meanings:
    19    (i)  "young  adult"  shall  mean  an individual who ranges in age from
    20  eighteen to twenty years old;
    21    (ii) "experienced driver" shall mean an individual who (A) is not less
    22  than twenty-one years of age, (B) has held a commercial driver's license
    23  for at least a two-year period, (C) has  had  no  preventable  accidents
    24  reportable  to  the United States secretary of transportation or pointed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15697-01-0

        A. 10140                            2

     1  moving violations for at least a one-year period, and (D) has a  minimum
     2  of one year of experience driving a commercial vehicle in commerce.
     3    (c)  Such  pilot  program  shall provide qualified young adult drivers
     4  with a CDL class A driver's license.
     5    (d) Such pilot program shall commence  on  June  first,  two  thousand
     6  twenty-one.
     7    (e)  The commissioner shall provide the governor, the temporary presi-
     8  dent of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly  with  a  report  on
     9  such  pilot program on June first, two thousand twenty-four. Such report
    10  shall include:
    11    (i) the number of qualified drivers licensed under such pilot program;
    12    (ii) any safety concerns that occurred including, but not limited  to,
    13  traffic violations and accidents; and
    14    (iii) any additional information the commissioner deems relevant.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
    16  court of competent jurisdiction determines that this  act  would  render
    17  New York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds.
    18    §  3.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
    19  section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
    20  diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
    21  date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in  its  operation  to
    22  the  clause,  sentence,  subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
    23  directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
    24  been rendered.
    25    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the commis-
    26  sioner  of  transportation  shall  notify  the legislative bill drafting
    27  commission upon the occurrence of the repeal of this act provided for in
    28  section two of this act in order that the  commission  may  maintain  an
    29  accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws
    30  of  the  state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions
    31  of section 44 of the legislative law and  section  70-b  of  the  public
    32  officers law.
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