Legislation

Title: Motor Vehicles - Lamps and Lights - Use When Windshield Wipers Operating
Sponsored by: Delegates Stein, Beidle, Fraser-Hidalgo, Holmes, Jackson, Jacobs, Knotts, McCray, O'Donnell, Otto, and Szeliga
Status: In the Senate - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Analysis: Fiscal and Policy Note

Synopsis

Requiring that a driver of a vehicle on a highway use the vehicle's tail lamps when the driver continuously operates the vehicle's windshield wipers due to impaired visibility resulting from unfavorable atmospheric conditions; and repealing the authority of a driver to use a vehicle's fog lights instead of the vehicle's headlamps during the continuous operation of the vehicle's windshield wipers under specified circumstances.

Committees

Original:: Environment and Transportation

Opposite:: Judicial Proceedings

Details

Cross-filed with: SB0232

Bill File Type: Regular

Effective Date(s): July 1, 2016

History

Legislation History
Chamber House Calendar Date 1/25/2016 Legislative Date 1/26/2016 Action First Reading Environment and Transportation Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 1/27/2016 Legislative Date 1/27/2016 Action Hearing 2/11 at 1:30 p.m. Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/25/2016 Legislative Date 2/29/2016 Action Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 3/01/2016 Legislative Date 3/01/2016 Action Favorable Report Adopted Proceedings 35
Chamber House Calendar Date 3/01/2016 Legislative Date 3/01/2016 Action Second Reading Passed Proceedings 35
Chamber House Calendar Date 3/03/2016 Legislative Date 3/03/2016 Action Third Reading Passed (136-3) Proceedings 37
Chamber Senate Calendar Date 3/04/2016 Legislative Date 3/04/2016 Action First Reading Judicial Proceedings Proceedings 37

Chamber	Calendar Date	Legislative Date	Action	Proceedings
House	1/25/2016	1/26/2016	First Reading Environment and Transportation
House	1/27/2016	1/27/2016	Hearing 2/11 at 1:30 p.m.
House	2/25/2016	2/29/2016	Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation
House	3/01/2016	3/01/2016	Favorable Report Adopted	35
House	3/01/2016	3/01/2016	Second Reading Passed	35
House	3/03/2016	3/03/2016	Third Reading Passed (136-3)	37
Senate	3/04/2016	3/04/2016	First Reading Judicial Proceedings	37

Documents

Date Posted	Document Name
1/26/2016	Text - First - Motor Vehicles - Lamps and Lights - Use When Windshield Wipers Operating
3/01/2016	Text - Third - Motor Vehicles - Lamps and Lights - Use When Windshield Wipers Operating
2/26/2016	Vote - House - Committee - Environment and Transportation
3/03/2016	Vote - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (136-3) - 03/03/16

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