Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 869

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Relating to: traffic control signal priority devices for snow removal vehicles. (FE)

Road — Machinery Road — Marking

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill authorizes snow removal vehicles to be equipped with lamps or other

transmitters to communicate with traffic control signals equipped with traffic

control signal priority devices. These devices allow the operator of the vehicle to

request that a green signal be provided or maintained to allow the vehicle to proceed

through the intersection.

Under current law, authorized emergency vehicles may be equipped with lamps

or other transmitters to communicate with traffic control signals equipped with

emergency preemption devices, which allow the operator of the vehicle to alter the

normal traffic control sequence to provide or maintain a green signal to allow the

vehicle to proceed through the intersection.

The bill provides that the authority responsible for maintenance of a traffic

control signal may establish procedures for resolving conflicts between multiple

requests for signal preemption or priority at a traffic signal, except that a signal

preemption request from an emergency vehicle must be given priority over any

signal priority request.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DOT

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Feb 12, 2024 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 19, 2024 official source full page