Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 3:38 p.m.
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
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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.
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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.