Bill Text: WV HB2991 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a state hotline for travelers to identify road hazards
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Roads and Transportation [HB2991 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2991-Introduced.html
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WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on Roads and Transportation then Government Organization
A BILL to amend the Code
of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated
§17-2A-24, relating to requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a
state hotline for travelers to identify road hazards; and requiring the
Commissioner of Highways to develop a communications plan to disseminate to the
public information about known emergency, life threatening road hazards.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated §17-2A-24, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2A. WEST
VIRGINIA COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS.
§17-2A-24. West Virginia Road Hazard Hotline.
(a) On or before
October 1, 2017, the commissioner shall develop a hotline that would allow
travelers to report hazards on the roadways to the Division of Highways. The
hotline shall be accessible to travelers by phone, electronic texts and
e-mails. The hotline shall be referred to as the “West Virginia Road Hazard
Hotline.”
(b) Emergency, life threatening hazards. --
The commissioner shall develop a communications plan to have multimedia outlets
communicate to the public that emergency, life threatening road hazards exist.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways
to develop a state hotline for travelers to identify road hazards; and to
require the Commissioner of Highways to develop a communications plan to
disseminate to the public information about known road hazards.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that
would be added.
