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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 824

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Relating to: distances between motor vehicles.

Bus and truck Motor vehicle — Regulation

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the operator of a motor vehicle may not follow another

vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent. Current law further specifies

that, with certain exceptions, on a highway outside a business or residential district

the operator of a motor truck with a gross weight of more than 10,000 pounds must

maintain a distance of not less than 500 feet behind the vehicle immediately

preceding and must leave sufficient space so that an overtaking vehicle may enter

the space without danger.

This bill creates another exception to the large truck specification. In

particular, under this bill, the large truck specification does not apply to platoons.

A “platoon” is defined in the bill as a group of individual motor vehicles traveling in

a unified manner at electronically coordinated speeds.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Horlacher (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Macco (R) , Mursau (R) , Neylon (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Schraa (R) , Steffen (R) , Tauchen (R)

5 cosponsors

Barca (D) , Cowles (R) , Lasee (R) , Petrowski (R) , Tusler (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Feb 14, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Jan 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Rohrkaste, Neylon, Steffen, Kuglitsch, Horlacher, Kooyenga, Macco, Mursau, Schraa and Tauchen; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Cowles and Lasee

  2. Jan 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Jan 23, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Tusler added as a coauthor

  4. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 6, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 14, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  7. Feb 14, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Feb 15, 2018 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:50 PM on 2-20-2018 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 26

  9. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  10. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Barca added as a coauthor

  11. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1