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HB18 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021
HB18 Alabama 2017 Session
House Bill
Expired
Current Status
Regular Session 2017
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor
Tommy Hanes
Republican
Session
Regular Session 2017
Title
Motor vehicles, commercial vehicles with three or more axels, interstate highways and four-lane highways, outside of municipal corporate limits, required to use right lanes under certain conditions, exception for passing, Sec. 32-5A-80 am'd.
Description

Under current law, a motor vehicle traveling at less than the normal speed of traffic is required to travel in the right-hand lane or as close to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway as practicable.

This bill would specify that, on interstate highways and U.S. highways, a commercial motor vehicle having three or more axles would be required to travel in the right lanes unless passing or under certain other conditions.

Subjects
Motor Vehicles

Bill Actions

H

Indefinitely Postponed

H

Public Safety and Homeland Security first Amendment Offered

H

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Bill Text

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature