Introduced
by
To allow the use of emergency flashing lights during an emergency on a motor vehicle owned by a volunteer member of an emergency management unit of a local government, if authorized by the local government.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that would permit an authorized emergency vehicle to be equipped with flashing, rotating, or oscillating green lights, for use only when that vehicle was the on-site command vehicle at the scene of an emergency. It would also permit vehicles used to perform public utility service, trash collection, highway repair and maintenance, or snow removal; vehicles used by peace officers, rural letter carriers, or newspaper delivery people; and implements of husbandry, certain military vehicles, and vehicles escorting or transporting an oversized load--to display white, as well as amber, flashing, rotating or oscillating lights.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)
To allow the use of emergency flashing lights during an emergency on a motor vehicle owned by a volunteer member of an emergency management unit of a local government, if authorized by the local government. The bill also allows and specified colors for flashing lights used by an on-site command vehicle at the scene of an emergency, and by various non-emergency service vehicles.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation
