This bill proposes several updates to the Arizona Revised Statutes regarding high occupancy vehicle lanes. It introduces new definitions for "blood transport vehicles" and specifies that these vehicles must display a removable decal indicating they are transporting human blood or blood products. Additionally, the bill clarifies that the Department shall limit the use of high occupancy vehicle lanes to vehicles in a prescribed priority order and maintain these restrictions while the lane is degraded, which is now defined as failing to maintain a speed of forty-five miles per hour or greater for ninety percent of the time over an eighty-day period during peak hours.

Furthermore, the bill modifies existing penalties for violations of high occupancy vehicle lane regulations, changing the civil penalty amount from two hundred dollars to $200, and specifies that $100 of each penalty collected will be deposited in the state general fund. It also updates the definition of "public transportation vehicle" to include vehicles owned or operated by a public entity or those operated under a contract with the public entity, while removing outdated language related to authorized emergency vehicles.

Statutes affected:
Introduced Version: 28-337, 28-737, 28-2416, 28-2416.01, 28-601