File Code: Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 709
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Gutierrez, Carter, Lee, and Simmons
- Entitled:
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Vehicle Laws - High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes - Unrestricted Use by All
Vehicles
Requiring the State Highway Administration and law enforcement
personnel to open a high occupancy vehicle lane to all vehicles when a
serious accident causes traffic in the lanes adjacent to the HOV lane
to slow more than a specified rate of speed; providing that an HOV
lane shall be closed again to specified vehicles when specified
conditions no longer exist; requiring the State Highway Administration
to indicate when an HOV lane is open to all vehicles on specified
electronic traffic control devices; etc.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- Hearing 3/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/14
- Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
- Delegate Jill P. Carter, District 41
- Delegate Susan C. Lee, District 16
- Delegate Luiz R. S. Simmons, District 17
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, STATE
- HIGHWAYS
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPARTMENT OF
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED; AMBULANCES; BUSES; etc.
- SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
- TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Transportation
- (
11-167 ,
21-201 ,
25-105
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered
