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. LBD15697-01-0A. 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.