SB 2026: TRAFFIC SAFETY; DUTY OF APPROACHING VEHICLE; STATIONARY VEHICLE; PICKUP TRUCKS; PASSENGER RESTRICTIONS

Part I:  Requires drivers of vehicles approaching stationary motor vehicles stopped in any location on the roadway, shoulder, or roadside to slow down and make a lane change if necessary.  Part II:  Prohibits the operation of a pickup truck with a passenger seated in the bed or load-carrying area on roadways with posted speed limits of forty-six miles per hour or higher and roadways with three or more lanes traveling in the same direction.  Provides certain exemptions from passenger restrictions.  Increases the minimum age to ride in the bed or load-carrying area of a pickup truck while in operation from twelve years of age to eighteen years of age.  0Effective 7/1/3000.  (HD1)