Bill Text: NH HB1308 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allowing motorcycles to pass a vehicle in the same lane or travel between lanes of traffic in certain instances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-09 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/09/2016 House Journal 23 P. 66 [HB1308 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1308-Introduced.html
HB 1308 - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
16-2337
03/10
HOUSE BILL 1308
AN ACT allowing motorcycles to pass a vehicle in the same lane or travel between lanes of traffic in certain instances.
SPONSORS: Rep. Lachance, Hills. 8; Rep. Jones, Straf. 24; Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Burt, Hills. 39; Rep. D. Thomas, Rock. 5; Rep. Moore, Hills. 21
COMMITTEE: Transportation
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ANALYSIS
This bill allows motorcycles to pass a vehicle in the same lane or travel between lanes of traffic when traffic is stopped or traveling less than 10 miles per hour.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16-2337
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT allowing motorcycles to pass a vehicle in the same lane or travel between lanes of traffic in certain instances.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Rules of the Road; Motorcycles. Amend RSA 265:121, II-III to read as follows:
II. The driver of a motorcycle [shall not] may overtake and pass a vehicle in the same lane [occupied by] only if the vehicle being overtaken is stopped or traveling at less than 10 miles per hour.
III. No person shall drive a motorcycle on a roadway between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles unless the traffic or rows of vehicles are stopped or traveling at less than 10 miles per hour.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2017.
