NEW YORK FREEDOM RIDER NEWS – 1/14/22 motorcycle related updates
 

NEW YORK FREEDOM RIDER NEWS – 1/14/22 motorcycle related updates

ALABAMA -new

SB65: Motorcycles, reflective protective headgear required, Sec. 32-5A-245 am'd.

Status:
01/11/2022: Read for first time and referred to Governmental Affairs Committee

Bill text: http://alisondb.legislature.state.al...s/SB65-int.pdf
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MASSACHUSETTS -hearings

Joint Committee on Transportation

January 19, 2022 at 3 pm, Virtual hearing. https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4162

Agenda- motorcycle related bills only
H3417: An Act relative to a motorcycle safety fund
H3438: An Act relative to the clarification for the definition, testing regulations, and enforcement of motorcycle sound emissions
H3487: An Act relative to motorcycle safety
H3513: An Act relative to certain motorcycle travel
H3524: An Act relative to motorcycle helmet choice
S2315: An Act allowing in specific situations, motorcyclists use of a breakdown or access lane, or splitting travel lanes
S2328: An Act relative to standards for protective headgear for operators or passengers on motorcycles
S2329: An Act to promote and advance motorcycle safety
S2331: An Act relative to a motorcycle safety fund
S2354: An Act relative to motorcycle parking
S2363: An Act relative to motorcycle permit requirements

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MISSOURI -update

HB2123: Modifies provisions relating to auxiliary lighting for motorcycles

Status:
1/06/2022: Read Second Time
1/05/2022: Read First Time

Bill text: https://www.house.mo.gov/billtrackin.../4155H.01I.pdf
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NEBRASKA -update

LB581: Change motorcycle, moped, and autocycle helmet provisions

Status:
Jan 05, 2022: Title printed. Carryover bill

Bill text: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/Floo...ntro/LB581.pdf
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NEW HAMPSHIRE -update

HB1462: relative to motorcycle learner's permits.

Status:
1/13/2022: Transportation Committee- Public Hearing: 01/18/2022 02:00 pm LOB 201-203

Bill text: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_st...txtFormat=html
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NEW YORK- updates

A148: Prohibits children under the age of twelve from riding on a motorcycle.

Status:
01/05/2022: referred to Transportation Committee

Bill text: https://www.nyassembly.gov/leg/?defa...rm=2021&Text=Y
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A1107: Authorizes the commissioner of transportation to conduct a comprehensive study of the efficacy of motorcycle helmets.

Status:
01/05/2022: referred to Transportation Committee

Bill text: https://www.nyassembly.gov/leg/?defa...rm=2021&Text=Y
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A1747/S3860: Requires the municipal police training council to ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training.

Status:
Assembly:
01/05/2022: referred to Governmental Operations Committee
Senate:
01/05/2022: referred to Finance Committee

Bill text: https://www.nyassembly.gov/leg/?defa...rm=2021&Text=Y
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VIRGINIA -new

HB367: Exhaust systems; excessive noise. Prohibits any individual from operating a motor vehicle with a gross weight of 10,000 pounds or less with an exhaust system that emits noise equivalent to noise in excess of 85 decibels measured from a distance of 50 feet. The bill also allows the governing body of any county, city, or town located within the Northern Virginia Planning District to provide by ordinance that no person shall operate any motor vehicle on a highway or on public or private property within 500 feet of any residential district unless such motor vehicle is equipped with an exhaust system of a type installed as standard equipment, or comparable to that designed for use on that particular vehicle or device as standard factory equipment, in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive noise. The bill also requires the Superintendent of State Police to promulgate regulations for the inspection of motor vehicles to ensure that no motor vehicle is equipped with a gutted muffler, muffler cutout, or straight exhaust or any mechanical or electronic device that creates or amplifies noise emitted by the motor vehicle that is louder than the noise emitted by such motor vehicle as originally manufactured.

Status:
01/11/22: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103587D

Bill text: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/leg...+ful+HB367+pdf
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HB632/SB180: Exhaust systems; excessive noise. Prohibits any individual from operating a motor vehicle with a gross weight of 6,500 pounds or less with an exhaust system that emits noise in excess of 85 decibels. The bill also allows the governing body of any county, city, or town located within the Northern Virginia Planning District or Richmond Regional Planning District to provide by ordinance that no person shall operate any motor vehicle on a highway or on public or private property within 500 feet of any residential district unless such motor vehicle is equipped with an exhaust system of a type installed as standard equipment, or comparable to that designed for use on that particular vehicle or device as standard factory equipment, in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive noise.

Status:
Assembly:
01/11/22: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100082D
Senate:
01/10/22: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100194D

Bill text: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/leg...+ful+HB632+pdf
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HB838: Lane filtering; motorcycles. Authorizes the operator of a two-wheeled motorcycle to pass another vehicle that is stopped or traveling at no more than 10 miles per hour in the same lane, provided that there are at least two lanes of travel in each direction, such motorcycle does not exceed a speed of 20 miles per hour, and the operator executes such passing safely.

Status:
01/12/22: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102315D

Bill text: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/leg...+ful+HB838+pdf
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WASHINGTON -updates

HB1106/SB5622: Modifying the operation of motorcycles on roadways laned for traffic.

Status:
Assembly:
Jan 10: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Senate:
Jan 10: First reading, referred to Transportation.

Bill text: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/bienn...20220116165345
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HB1254: Improving motorcycle safety by authorizing the use of the right shoulder of limited access roadways.

Status:
Jan 10: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

Bill text: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/bienn...20220116170221
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HB1624: Modifying the motorcycle safety education advisory board.

Status:
Jan 18: Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Transportation at 3:30 PM
Jan 10: First reading, referred to Transportation.

Bill text: https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/bienn...20220116160023
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WEST VIRGINIA -new

HB2711/SB127: Permitting persons who are twenty-one years of age or older to operate or be a passenger on a motorcycle without a helmet

Status:
Assembly:
01/12/22: Introduced and referred to Technology and Infrastructure
Senate:
01/12/22: Introduced and referred to Transportation and Infrastructure

Bill text: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Te...711%20INTR.pdf
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