2012 Regular Session - Traffic Safety Interests
Click on the title to see the entire bill. Bills are ordered by number.
HB2 - No texting while driving - Representative McClendon. This bill would prohibit a person from operating a motor vehicle while text messaging; would provide penalties; and would provide exceptions.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee
SB8 - Expanded Traffic Enforcement - Interstate Highways - Senator Dial. Under existing law, a law enforcement officer or a peace officer of any incorporated municipality which has less than 19,000 inhabitants according to the most recent federal decennial census is prohibited from enforcing speed limits on any interstate highway. This bill would delete this and other such provisions.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin.
HB19 - Enables Driving Instructors to Administer Driving Test (Private Schools) - Representative Barton. This bill essentially extends this driving instructor capability that current exists in public schools to private schools.
Status: Prefiled. To be assigned to Commerce and Small Busincess committee.
SB34 - Bicycle Passing Distance - Senator Brooks. Under existing law, a driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle proceeding in the same direction is required to pass at a safe distance and maintain the clearance until safely past the bicycle. This bill would provide a definition for safe distance for purposes of a vehicle overtaking and passing a bicycle.
Status: Pre-filed, to be assigned to Commerce, Transportation, and Utilities committee.
HB79 - Tower/Wrecker Service Territory - Representative McClendon. This bill would specify that the Department of Public Safety may not reduce the territory in which a wrecker/towing service receives calls from.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin.
SB37 - Renewal of Motor Vehicle Registrations - Senator Sanford. This bill would specify that a license transaction would not include renewing a motor vehicle license plate, a driver's license or nondriver identification card, or a business or other license.
Status: Pre-filed. To be assigned to Governmental Affairs committee.
SB80 - Move over for Emergency Vehicles - Senator Brewbaker. This bill requires driver to slow down or move over when approaching a service vehicle displaying any rotating or flashing lights.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
SB94 - Bicycling Signals - Senator Allen. This bill would authorize a person riding a bicycle to give a hand signal for a right turn with his or her right arm and hand extended horizontally on the right side of the bicycle.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
HB87 - Abandoned Vehicle - Representative McClendon. This bill would further define an abandoned motor vehicle and would specify that a law enforcement officer may have a motor vehicle towed if the driver of the motor vehicle has been arrested or injured.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
HB157 - Motorcycle License - Representative Farley. This bill would require a person who does not have a Class M motorcycle license to take and pass a motorcycle knowledge test given by the Department of Public Safety in order to have a motorcycle endorsement displayed on his or her driver's license.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
HB170 - Driving License - Representatives Rich, Greer, Johnson, Baughn, Ball. This bill would allow an officer to request to see an individual's driver license, if he had reason to believe that individual had been driving.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
SB181 - Insurance Vehicle Course - Senator Blackwell. This bill would reduce the number of hours of instruction and allow online instruction for a motor vehicle accident prevention course.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
SB192 - Racial Profiles/Statistics - Senator Smitherman. This bill would define racial profiling and would prohibit a law enforcement officer from engaging in racial profiling.
Status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
Status information from ALISON.
State Safety Coordinating Committee
/DCP_0212.JPG) Established by an act of the the Alabama Legislature, the mission of the State Safety Coordinating Committee (SSCC) is increased safety, with particular focus on the problem of traffic accidents. This includes crash prevention, crash severity reduction and remedial actions (e.g., emergency medical services). More formally, The mission of the SSCC is to formulate, coordinate, and apply whatever SSCC resources are available to reduce crash frequency and severity (including remedial first responder services) so that there is a maximum reduction in fatalities, severe injuries, fatal and injury crashes, and property damage crashes. The SSCC recognizes that this mission involves not only its own resources but the influence that it can exert in coordinating and assuring the more effective use of resources of other traffic safety advocates and professionals within the total traffic safety community, both within Alabama and those provided by our federal partners. The SSCC is the primary liaison between the traffic safety community and the Alabama legislature, and its role in this regard is to assure that all available expertise, both within Alabama and Nationally, is brought to bear to assure that the laws passed within Alabama are as effective as possible in accomplishing the SSCC mission.
A review and comparison of a number of laws in various states is given under Service Groups/IIHS.
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