A8017 • 2025

Increases the weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power and other fuels

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Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Last action: 2026-04-29
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Increases the weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power and other fuels

Increases the weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power and other fuels Provides that a vehicle or a combination of vehicles operated by an engine fueled primarily by means of natural gas, propane gas, or hydrogen or powered primarily by means of electric battery power may exceed certain weight limits by up to two thousand pounds.

What This Bill Does

Increases the weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power and other fuels Provides that a vehicle or a combination of vehicles operated by an engine fueled primarily by means of natural gas, propane gas, or hydrogen or powered primarily by means of electric battery power may exceed certain weight limits by up to two thousand pounds.

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Bill History

2026-04-29 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-04-29 Assembly
DELIVERED TO SENATE
2026-04-29 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2026-02-12 Assembly
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.257
2026-02-10 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-05-28 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2025-04-22 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Increases the weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power and other fuels
Provides that a vehicle or a combination of vehicles operated by an engine fueled primarily by means of natural gas, propane gas, or hydrogen or powered primarily by means of electric battery power may exceed certain weight limits by up to two thousand pounds.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8017

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 22, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
          weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power
          and other fuels

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 385 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 13-a to read as follows:
     3    13-A.  A  VEHICLE  OR  COMBINATION  OF  VEHICLES OPERATED BY AN ENGINE
     4  FUELED PRIMARILY BY MEANS OF NATURAL GAS, PROPANE GAS,  OR  HYDROGEN  OR
     5  POWERED  PRIMARILY  BY  MEANS  OF  ELECTRIC BATTERY POWER MAY EXCEED THE
     6  WEIGHT LIMITATIONS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBDIVISIONS SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN,
     7  ELEVEN AND TWELVE OF THIS SECTION BY UP TO TWO THOUSAND POUNDS.  NOTHING
     8  IN  THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL ALLOW A VEHICLE TO EXCEED ANY POSTED CAPACITY
     9  ON A HIGHWAY OR STRUCTURE AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION  FOURTEEN  OF  THIS
    10  SECTION.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11665-01-5