The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles.
DIGEST
SB 84 Original 2019 Regular Session Erdey
Proposed law authorizes the DOTD assistant secretary of the office of operations or the chief
engineer to designate a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane on any highway in the state highway
system and to restrict the use thereof to vehicular traffic classified as a "high occupancy vehicle
(HOV)" to the extent he thinks it expedient that, in his judgment, is appropriate to provide travel
time savings and to increase the total number of people moved through a highway corridor with high
levels of travel demand and traffic congestion.
Proposed law defines a "high occupancy vehicle" to mean a passenger car, pickup truck, van,
recreational vehicle, or a bus or other motorized passenger vehicle used for transporting persons such
as a carpool or a vanpool vehicle used for ridesharing purposes and occupied by a driver and one or
more passengers and to exclude a truck, tandem truck, tractor, truck-tractor, combination of vehicles,
or commercial motor vehicle carrying or transporting freight, merchandise, or other property from
its meaning; and defines a "high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane" to mean one or more lanes of a
highway or an entire highway where high occupancy vehicles are given at all times, or at regularly
scheduled times, a priority or preference over some or all other vehicles moving in the general stream
of all highway traffic.
Effective August 1, 2019.
(Adds R.S. 48:345)