ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

House: TRANS DPA/SE 8-0-0-1

HB 2590: ADOT; signs; driving on right

S/E: driving on right; educational information

Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 14

Caucus & COW

Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment to HB 2590

Overview

Requires defensive driving school courses, traffic survival schools and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to include left-lane restrictions in educational material.

History

Pursuant to A.R.S. § 27-721, on all roadways, a person must drive a vehicle on the right half of the roadway except:

1) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction;

2) When the right half of a roadway is closed to traffic while under construction or repair;

3) On a roadway divided into three marked lanes for traffic under the rules applicable on the roadway; and

4) On a road that is designated and has signposted for one-way traffic only.

On all roadways, a person driving a vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing is required to drive the vehicle in the right-hand lane then available for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.

Provisions

1. Requires defensive rriving school courses and traffic survival schools to include educational information relating left-lane restrictions. (Sec. 1)

2. Requires ADOT to include left-lane restriction information in any of the department's examination, information and educational material. (Sec. 1)

3. Contains a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021. (Sec. 2)

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