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SB121 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021
SB121 Alabama 2013 Session
Senate Bill
In Committee
Current Status
Regular Session 2013
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2013
Title
Motor vehicles, overtaking and passing bicycles, must maintain safe distance of at least three feet from bicycle, definition of safe distance, Sec. 32-5A-82 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, a driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle proceeding in the same direction is required to pass at a safe distance and maintain the clearance until safely past the bicycle.

This bill would provide a definition for safe distance for purposes of a vehicle overtaking and passing a bicycle.

Subjects
Motor Vehicles

Bill Actions

S

Indefinitely Postponed

S

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Commerce, Transportation, and Utilities

Bill Text

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature