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S 5076: 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.
What S 5076 does, verified January 10, 2026
The bill aims to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law to set a minimum age requirement for certain commercial driver's licenses. The law currently requires applicants for a commercial driver's license with an H or X endorsement to be at least 21 years old for interstate commerce and 18 years old for intrastate commerce. However, the bill proposes to change these requirements to 18 years old for both interstate and intrastate commerce. The changes will take effect 120 days after the bill becomes a law.
Bill journey
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Last action: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about S 5076
- What is the current status of S 5076?
- As of January 10, 2026, S 5076 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION".
- Did S 5076 pass?
- Not yet. S 5076 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote S 5076, and where is it now?
- S 5076 was authored by Sen. Joseph Griffo with 2 coauthors. Its committee of record is Senate Transportation.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION |
| Feb. 18, 2025 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 18, 2025 · 439 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5076 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE 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: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 618 of the laws of 2021, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) An applicant for a commercial driver's license [which contains an5H or an X endorsement or] which is valid for operation in interstate 6 commerce shall be at least twenty-one years of age; provided, however, 7 that an applicant for a class A license or for a commercial driver's 8 license which contains an H or an X endorsement or which is valid for 9 operation only in intrastate commerce shall be at least eighteen years 10 of age. 11 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehicle and 12 traffic law, as amended by chapter 520 of the laws of 1991, is amended 13 to read as follows: 14 (a) An applicant for a class A license or for a commercial driver's 15 license [which contains an H or an X endorsement or] which is valid for 16 operation in interstate commerce shall be at least twenty-one years of 17 age; provided, however, that an applicant for a class A license or for a 18 commercial driver's license which contains an H or an X endorsement or 19 which is valid for operation only in intrastate commerce shall be at 20 least eighteen years of age. 21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 22 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to 23 paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic 24 law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the repeal and 25 reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 4 of chapter 618 of the 26 laws of 2021, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section 27 two of this act shall take effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08560-01-5
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