Substitute for Raised H.B. No. 7204
Session Year 2025
 


AN ACT CONCERNING LIGHTS ON VEHICLES, PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF CERTAIN STATUTES, STOPS AND SEARCHES, A PHLEBOTOMY PROGRAM STUDY, INSPECTIONS OF CERTAIN VEHICLES, TRAFFIC SAFETY CORRIDORS AND A PILOT PROGRAM TO EQUIP POLICE VEHICLES WITH CERTAIN DEVICES.

To (1) permit certain first responders to use steady blue or red lights and wreckers to use steady blue lights when stationary, (2) modify penalties for violations of certain statutes relating to motor vehicles, (3) eliminate certain statutory provisions relating to cannabis and stops and searches, (4) study the feasibility of a permanent law enforcement phlebotomy program, (5) require safety inspections of vehicles used by law enforcement units, (6) establish a traffic safety corridor program, (7) establish a program to equip police vehicles with a device that is capable of launching a global positioning system onto another vehicle, and (8) modify statutory provisions concerning police officer review of certain recordings by substituting references to "use of force" with "incident".

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Public Safety and Security Committee

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Bill History

 Date Action Taken
 4/8/2025Referred by House to Committee on Transportation
 4/2/2025(LCO)File Number 476
 4/2/2025House Calendar Number 306
 4/2/2025Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
 4/2/2025(LCO)Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
 3/27/2025(LCO)Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/01/25 5:00 PM
 3/18/2025(LCO)Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
 3/18/2025(PS)Joint Favorable Substitute
 3/7/2025Public Hearing 03/11
 3/6/2025Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security

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