HB2257

Arizona HB2257 amends high occupancy vehicle lane rules, prioritizing certain vehicles and setting penalties for violations.

Arizona HB2257 modifies the rules for high occupancy vehicle lanes, prioritizing vehicles such as emergency vehicles, blood transport vehicles, and public transportation vehicles. It also sets a civil penalty of $200 for violations, with $100 of each penalty going to the state general fund. The bill defines a high occupancy vehicle lane as degraded if vehicles on the facility are not maintaining a speed of forty-five miles per hour or greater ninety percent of the time over a consecutive one hundred eighty-day period during morning and evening weekday peak hour periods.