EW YORK FREEDOM RIDER NEWS- 2/5/21 - motorcycle related updates
 

NEW YORK FREEDOM RIDER NEWS- 2/5/21 - motorcycle related updates

ALABAMA- new

HB125: Motor vehicles, motorcycle license, requirements, further provided, Secs. 32-5A-240, 32-12-22 am'd.

Status:
02-02-2021: Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Bill text: http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.../HB125-int.pdf
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FLORIDA- new

HB437/SB822: Operation of Motorized Vehicles by Minors; Prohibiting a person who is 18 years of age or younger from operating or riding upon a motorized vehicle unless he or she is wearing certain footwear, etc.

Status:
Assembly:
1/26/2021: Filed
Senate:
2/4/2021: Referred to Transportation; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules
1/26/2021: Filed

Bill text: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bil...Text/Filed/PDF
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IOWA- new

SF210: An Act requiring minors to wear helmets while riding motorcycles and motorized bicycles, and providing penalties

Status:
02/03/2021: Subcommittee: Brown, J. Smith, and Zumbach
02/02/2021: Introduced, referred to Transportation

Bill text: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publ...I/89/SF210.pdf
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SSB1136 [Senate Study Bill]: An Act relating to defective motorcycles and autocycles purchased or leased by consumers, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions.

Status:
02/03/2021: Subcommittee: Brown, Lykam, and Zumbach.
02/02/2021: Introduced, referred to Transportation.

Bill text: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publ...89/SSB1136.pdf
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KENTUCKY- new

SB131: Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 15A.350 to KRS 15A.366 as new sections of KRS Chapter 176 to transfer the Motorcycle Safety Education Commission and the motorcycle safety education program and fund from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to the Transportation Cabinet; attach the commission to the Office of Highway Safety in the Department of Highways for administrative purposes; amend KRS 186.450, 186.531, 186.535, and 176.010 to conform; confirm executive order 2020-992, transferring the commission and its duties from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to the Transportation Cabinet

Status:
02/04/21: to Transportation Committee
02/02/21: introduced in Senate to Committee on Committees

Bill text: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/reco.../orig_bill.pdf
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MARYLAND- new, update

SB712 [new]: Vehicle Laws - Protective Headgear Requirement for Motorcycle Riders – Exception

Status:
2/04/2021: Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 pm Zoom / YouTube
2/03/2021: First Reading Judicial Proceedings

Committee meeting guidelines:
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/pubs-curr...t-jpr-faqs.pdf

Bill text: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0712f.pdf
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HB118/SB293 [update]: Vehicle Laws - Injury or Death of Vulnerable Individual – Penalties

Status:
2/04/2021: Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation. Vote: 24-0

Bill text: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0118f.pdf
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MISSOURI- update

HB996: Modifies provisions relating to auxiliary lighting for motorcycles

Status:
2/01/2021: Read Second Time

Bill text: https://www.house.mo.gov/billtrackin.../1292H.01I.pdf
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MONTANA- update

SB9: Provide for motorcycle filtering

Status:
02/03/2021: House- Transportation Committee hearing

Bill text: http://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billpdf/SB0009.pdf
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NEVADA- update

SB17: Revises provisions governing motor vehicles. (BDR 43-319)

Status:
Feb 01, 2021: Read first time. To committee.

Bill text: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELI...7192/Overview#
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NEW YORK- update

S3534: Enacts the "vehicular violence accountability act"

Status:
1/30/ 2021: Referred to Transportation Committee

Bill text: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S3534
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A1747/S3860 [update]: Relates to motorcycle profiling

Status:
Senate: [update- companion bill]
1/31/ 2021: Referred to Finance Committee

Bill text: https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?de...rm=2021&Text=Y
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OKLAHOMA- new

HB1043: Motor vehicles; deleting limitation on the height of motorcycle handlebars; effective date.

Status:
02/02/2021: Second Reading referred to Public Safety
02/01/2021: First Reading

Bill text: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf...1043%20INT.PDF
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HB2667: Motorcycles; creating the Motorcycle Reform Act; effective date.

Status:
02/02/2021: Second Reading referred to Rules
02/01/2021: First Reading

Bill text: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf...2667%20INT.PDF
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SB845: Motorcycle profiling; defining term; prohibiting profiling; requiring local law enforcement to review training. Effective date.

Status:
02/02/2021: Second Reading referred to Public Safety
02/01/2021: First Reading

Bill text: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf...B845%20INT.PDF
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SB855: Transportation; establishing the Motorcycle Safety Task Force. Effective date.

Status:
02/02/2021: Second Reading referred to Transportation
02/01/2021: First Reading

Bill text: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf...B855%20INT.PDF
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PENNSYLVANIA- update

HB113: An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions relating to operation of vehicles, further providing for obedience to authorized persons directing traffic and providing for drivers in organized motorcycle processions; and, in rules of the road in general, further providing for following too closely.

Status:
Feb. 4, 2021: Reported as amended. First consideration, laid on the table

Bill text: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs...r=0113&pn=0386
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VERMONT- new

S57: An act relating to secondary enforcement of the motorcycle helmet law

Status:
2/2/2021: Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

Bill text: https://legislature.vermont.gov/Docu...Introduced.pdf
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WASHINGTON- update

HB1254: Improving motorcycle safety by authorizing the use of the right shoulder of limited access roadways.

Status:
Feb 4: Public hearing in the House Committee on Transportation

Bill text: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/bienni...20210205032827

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