Connecticut SB 389: AN ACT CONCERNING TRAFFIC MITIGATION.

Bill Text

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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 389
February Session, 2022 LCO No. 2947

Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION

Introduced by:
(TRA)

AN ACT CONCERNING TRAFFIC MITIGATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) Not later than January 1, 1
2023, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, in conjunction 2
with the Department of Transportation, shall develop a training 3
curriculum for police officers concerning traffic incident management. 4
Such curriculum shall be aligned with training developed by the Federal 5
Highway Administration and shall provide for a systematic, planned 6
and coordinated approach to detect, respond and clear traffic incidents 7
in order to restore traffic capacity in a safe and efficient manner. 8
(b) On and after October 1, 2023, each police basic or review training 9
program conducted or administered by the Police Officer Standards and 10
Training Council, the Division of State Police within the Department of 11
Emergency Services and Public Protection or a municipal police 12
department shall include the training curriculum developed pursuant 13
to subsection (a) of this section. 14
Sec. 2. Subsection (d) of section 14-224 of the 2022 supplement to the 15

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general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 16
thereof (Effective October 1, 2022): 17
(d) Each person operating a motor vehicle who is knowingly 18
involved in an accident on a [limited access] highway which causes 19
damage to property only shall immediately move or cause [his] the 20
motor vehicle to be moved from the traveled portion of the highway to 21
an untraveled area which is adjacent to the accident site if it is possible 22
to move the motor vehicle without risk of further damage to property 23
or injury to any person. 24
Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2022) (a) As used in this section, 25
"high occupancy vehicle lane" means a traffic lane reserved for the 26
exclusive use of vehicles with an operator and one or more passengers, 27
and "battery electric vehicle" has the same meaning as provided in 28
section 16-19ee of the general statutes. 29
(b) The Office of the State Traffic Administration may designate lanes 30
on any state highway as a high occupancy vehicle lane and erect or 31
cause to be erected signs identifying any such high occupancy vehicle 32
lane. The office shall permit the operator of a battery electric vehicle to 33
use any such high occupancy vehicle lane, regardless of the number of 34
passengers in the battery electric vehicle, provided the operator displays 35
a decal issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to 36
subsection (l) of section 14-12 of the general statutes, as amended by this 37
act, on the battery electric vehicle at all times when operating in the high 38
occupancy vehicle lane. The office may adopt regulations, in accordance 39
with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to implement 40
the provisions of this section. 41
Sec. 4. Subsection (l) of section 14-12 of the 2022 supplement to the 42
general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 43
thereof (Effective October 1, 2022): 44
(l) (1) Not later than January 1, 2018, the Department of Motor 45
Vehicles shall record the number of electric vehicles, as defined in 46
section 16-19eee, registered in the state. This data shall be publicly 47

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available on the department's Internet web site and shall include [(1)] 48
the number of electric vehicles registered in the state each year, and [(2)] 49
the total number of electric vehicles registered in the state. The 50
department shall update this information every six months. 51
(2) On and after October 1, 2022, the Department of Motor Vehicles 52
shall, upon request, issue to a person who registers or has registered a 53
battery electric vehicle, as defined in section 16-19eee, a decal to be used 54
by such person when operating the battery electric vehicle in a high 55
occupancy vehicle lane designated by the Office of State Traffic 56
Administration pursuant to section 3 of this act. 57
Sec. 5. (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Transportation 58
shall develop a plan to expand the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to 59
investigate motor vehicle accidents and other traffic incidents and to 60
inspect existing transportation facilities. Not later than October 1, 2022, 61
the commissioner shall submit such plan and recommend a level of 62
funding needed to implement such plan, in accordance with the 63
provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes to the joint standing 64
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 65
relating to transportation. 66
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:

Section 1 from passage New section
Sec. 2 October 1, 2022 14-224(d)
Sec. 3 October