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PA HB1504
Bill
Status
5/28/2025
Primary Sponsor
Brett Miller
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AI Summary
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Creates a new "vulnerable highway user" definition in Pennsylvania vehicle code that includes pedestrians, cyclists, individuals on motorized pedalcycles, animals, animal-drawn vehicles, electric mobility devices, nonmotorized self-propelled devices, and motor-driven cycles
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Expands the existing 4-foot passing requirement from pedalcycles only to all vulnerable highway users, and adds new rules requiring drivers to pass pedestrians on highways by at least 4 feet when safe to do so
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Establishes enhanced penalties for careless driving that injures or kills vulnerable highway users: fines of $500-$5,000 for unintentional death (versus $500 for non-vulnerable users), $250-$2,500 for serious bodily injury, and up to $500 for bodily injury
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Adds careless driving violations involving vulnerable highway users to the list of offenses triggering a mandatory 1-year license suspension
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Increases the general penalty for violations of the pedestrian subchapter from $10 to $25, with the act taking effect 120 days after enactment
Legislative Description
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; in licensing of drivers, further providing for suspension of operating privilege; in rules of the road in general, further providing for overtaking vehicle on the left and providing for vehicles passing pedestrians on a highway; in special vehicles and pedestrians, further providing for penalty for violation of subchapter; and, in miscellaneous provisions relating to offenses in general, further providing for the offense of careless driving.
Last Action
Referred to Transportation
5/28/2025