Vehicles: highway safety.
- Expands highway safety rules to require drivers to change lanes or slow down for all vehicles with warning lights or devices.
- Applies to highway maintenance vehicles, tow trucks, and any vehicle using hazard lights, cones, or flares.
- Mandates drivers to move over one lane when safe or reduce speed to a prudent level.
- Establishes a $50 fine for violations of these expanded safety requirements.
Assembly Member Wilson's highway safety legislation expands California's "move over" requirements to protect a broader range of roadside workers and stopped vehicles. The measure builds upon existing law requiring drivers to change lanes or slow down when approaching stationary emergency vehicles by extending those protections to all marked highway maintenance vehicles and any stopped vehicle displaying warning devices.
Under the proposed changes, drivers approaching stationary maintenance vehicles or any vehicle using flashing hazard lights, cones, flares, or retroreflective markers must move to a non-adjacent lane when safe and legal to do so. If changing lanes is impractical, drivers must reduce speed based on current road, weather and traffic conditions. The requirements apply to maintenance vehicles operated by state and local agencies as well as their contractors performing road work. Vehicles separated from traffic by physical barriers are exempt from the provisions.
The measure maintains the current $50 maximum fine for violations while specifying that local agencies will not receive state reimbursement for enforcement costs. This expansion of move-over protections aims to create consistent driver behavior around all roadside hazards and maintenance activities, not just emergency responses.
 Roger NielloR Senator | Bill Author |  Not Contacted | |
 Shannon GroveR Senator | Committee Member | Not Contacted | |
 Brian JonesR Senator | Committee Member | Not Contacted | |
 Tom LackeyR Assembly Member | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
 Mike McGuireD Senator | Committee Member | Not Contacted |
Email the authors or create an email template to send to all relevant legislators.
Introduced By
Latest Voting History
| Ayes | Noes | NVR | Total | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 0 | 5 | 79 | PASS |
- Expands highway safety rules to require drivers to change lanes or slow down for all vehicles with warning lights or devices.
- Applies to highway maintenance vehicles, tow trucks, and any vehicle using hazard lights, cones, or flares.
- Mandates drivers to move over one lane when safe or reduce speed to a prudent level.
- Establishes a $50 fine for violations of these expanded safety requirements.
Email the authors or create an email template to send to all relevant legislators.
Introduced By
Assembly Member Wilson's highway safety legislation expands California's "move over" requirements to protect a broader range of roadside workers and stopped vehicles. The measure builds upon existing law requiring drivers to change lanes or slow down when approaching stationary emergency vehicles by extending those protections to all marked highway maintenance vehicles and any stopped vehicle displaying warning devices.
Under the proposed changes, drivers approaching stationary maintenance vehicles or any vehicle using flashing hazard lights, cones, flares, or retroreflective markers must move to a non-adjacent lane when safe and legal to do so. If changing lanes is impractical, drivers must reduce speed based on current road, weather and traffic conditions. The requirements apply to maintenance vehicles operated by state and local agencies as well as their contractors performing road work. Vehicles separated from traffic by physical barriers are exempt from the provisions.
The measure maintains the current $50 maximum fine for violations while specifying that local agencies will not receive state reimbursement for enforcement costs. This expansion of move-over protections aims to create consistent driver behavior around all roadside hazards and maintenance activities, not just emergency responses.
Latest Voting History
| Ayes | Noes | NVR | Total | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 0 | 5 | 79 | PASS |
Roger NielloR Senator | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
Shannon GroveR Senator | Committee Member | Not Contacted | |
Brian JonesR Senator | Committee Member | Not Contacted | |
Tom LackeyR Assembly Member | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
Mike McGuireD Senator | Committee Member | Not Contacted |