HB365
Emergency vehicles; exempt from certain traffic regulations.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Emergency vehicles; exempt from certain traffic regulations.
Authorizes a law-enforcement vehicle, defined in current law, operated by or under the direction of a state or local law-enforcement officer to disregard parking and stopping provisions. The bill expands the situations in which such vehicles may disregard speed limits to include when establishing evidence of other violations of law ... (More) and when responding to an emergency in which emergency lights and siren may pose a safety risk and removes such authorization for disregarding speed limits in certain situations provided under existing law for law-enforcement vehicles operated by or under the direction of a federal law-enforcement officer. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/12/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104017D
- 01/12/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/19/2026 - House: Assigned HTRAN sub: Highway Safety and Policy
- 01/20/2026 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 01/21/2026 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 01/27/2026 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 01/28/2026 - House: House subcommittee offered
- 01/28/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2026 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 02/03/2026 - House: House committee offered
- 02/03/2026 - House: Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2026 - House: Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- 02/06/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/09/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/09/2026 - House: committee amendments rejected
- 02/09/2026 - House: Delegate McLaughlin Floor amendments agreed to
- 02/09/2026 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/10/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (96-Y 2-N 0-A)
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/16/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB365)
- 02/19/2026 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/20/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
