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HB1383: prohibiting commercial trucks from left lane travel on multi-lane highways.

Citation
2020 HB1383
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Bill details

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House status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
House Transportation
Hearing
01/22/2020 at 12:00 PM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Transportation

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HB 1383 - AS INTRODUCED

2020 SESSION

20-2043

11/01

HOUSE BILL 1383

AN ACT prohibiting commercial trucks from left lane travel on multi-lane highways.

SPONSORS: Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Stapleton, Sull. 5; Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits certain commercial trucks from traveling in the left lane of a multilane interstate highway or turnpike during certain hours of the day, unless entering or exiting such highway or turnpike from the left lane.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2043

11/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

AN ACT prohibiting commercial trucks from left lane travel on multi-lane highways.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Rules of the Road; Driving on Right Side of Roadway. Amend RSA 265:16, V to read as follows:

V. No commercial vehicles with 3 or more axles shall travel in the left lane of an interstate highway or turnpike that has 3 or more lanes in the same direction between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. or 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., unless such vehicles are entering or exiting such highways or turnpikes from the left lane.

VI. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined $50 plus penalty assessment.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.