California Assembly Bill AB208 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 208AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 9, 2015 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 21, 2015 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2015 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bigelow JANUARY 29, 2015 An act to amend Section 21656 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 208, as amended, Bigelow. Vehicles: highway: lane use. Existing law requires, on a 2-lane highway where passing is unsafe due to specified reasons, a slow-moving vehicle behind which 5 or more vehicles are formed in a line to turn off the roadway at the nearest place designed as a turnout or wherever sufficient area of a safe turnout exists in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed. This bill would  make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.   instead require, on a 2-lane highway where passing is unsafe due to specified reasons, any vehicle proceeding upon the highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time, behind which 5 or more vehicles are formed in   line, to turn off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists.  Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 21656 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: 21656. On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions,  a slow-moving vehicle, including a passenger vehicle,   any vehicle proceeding upon the highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time,  behind which five or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the  highway   roadway  at the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed.  As used in this section a slow-moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and place.