Bill Text: NY S08417 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-07 - PRINT NUMBER 8417A [S08417 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8417
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        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:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the  vehi-
     2  cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 520 of the laws of 1991, is
     3  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] eighteen
     7  years of age.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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