Assembly Bill A1046

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or termination of insurance if a person needs such license to perform employment

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A1046 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §318, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3989
2011-2012: A2773
2013-2014: A2162
2015-2016: A1462
2017-2018: A1301
2019-2020: A1748
2021-2022: A5307
2023-2024: A2619

2025-A1046 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after lapse or termination of insurance if a person needs such license to perform their employment.

2025-A1046 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1046
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO, LEMONDES, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MILLER,
   MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
   for the continuation of a commercial driver's license after  lapse  or
   termination of insurance

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 318 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISIONS  OF THIS SECTION, THE COMMERCIAL
 DRIVER'S LICENSE OF A PERSON WHO HAS HAD THEIR REGISTRATION  OR  LICENSE
 REVOKED OR SUSPENDED PURSUANT TO ANY PROVISION OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT
 BE  REVOKED  OR  SUSPENDED  PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON HAS FILED WITH THE
 COMMISSIONER A STATEMENT, IN A  FORM  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER,
 INDICATING  THAT  THEY  NEED SUCH COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE TO PERFORM
 THEIR EMPLOYMENT AND THAT SUCH DRIVER SHALL ONLY  BE  ALLOWED  TO  DRIVE
 THEIR  WORK  VEHICLE  WHILE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT. UPON
 RECEIPT OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENT THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  RESTRICT  THE
 DRIVER  TO  A  COMMERCIAL  DRIVER'S LICENSE UNTIL NEW PROOF OF FINANCIAL
 SECURITY HAS BEEN SECURED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02674-01-5

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