First Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 15-0053.01 Jery Payne x2157     HOUSE BILL 15-1068
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Wilson, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Transportation & Energy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the creation of a metric to measure whether a
            person is impeding traffic.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Currently, a driver may not impede the normal flow of traffic
       except as required by law. The bill creates a presumption that a person is
       impeding traffic if at least 4 motor vehicles are following immediately
       behind and the person is traveling at least 5 miles per hour below the
       speed limit. Vehicles with the slow-moving vehicle emblem are exempted
       from the law against impeding traffic.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-1103, amend
       (1) and (3) as follows:
            42-4-1103.  Minimum speed regulation. (1) (a)  No A person
       shall not drive a motor vehicle on any highway at such a slow speed as
       to impede or block the normal and reasonable forward movement flow
       of traffic, except when a reduced speed is necessary for safe operation of
       such a motor vehicle or in compliance with law.
            (b)  For the purposes of this section, a person is rebuttably
       presumed to be impeding traffic if at least four motor vehicles
       are following immediately behind the person and the person is
       traveling at least five miles per hour below the speed limit.
            (c)  This subsection (1) does not apply to a vehicle that:
            (I)  Is designed to drive at less than twenty-five miles per
       hour or is normally driven at less than twenty-five miles per
       hour; and
            (II)  Displays a triangular slow-moving vehicle emblem on
       the rear.
            (3)  Notwithstanding any minimum speed that may be authorized
       and posted pursuant to this section limit, if any person drives a motor
       vehicle on a highway outside an incorporated area or on any
       controlled-access highway at a speed less than the normal and reasonable
       speed of traffic under the conditions then and there existing and by so
       driving at such slower speed impedes or retards the normal and
       reasonable movement of vehicular traffic following immediately behind,
       then such driver shall if a person impedes traffic, the person may
       avoid violating subsection (1) of this section by:
            (a)  Where the width of the traveled way permits, drive driving in
       the right-hand lane available to traffic or on the extreme right side of the
       roadway consistent with the provisions of section 42-4-1001 (2) until
       such impeded traffic has passed by; or
            (b)  Pull Pulling off the roadway at the first available place where
       such the movement can safely and lawfully be made until such the
       impeded traffic has passed by.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
       applicability. (1)  This act takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following
       the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the
       general assembly (August 5, 2015, if adjournment sine die is on May 6,
       2015); except that, if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1
       (3) of article V of the state constitution against this act or an item, section,
       or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part
       will not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election
       to be held in November 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on the
       date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.
            (2)  This act applies to offenses committed on or after the effective
       date of this act.