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Assembly Bill A9331

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses, and other certain vehicles use the right two lanes of a multilane roadway

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2025-A9331 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1128, V & T L; add §333, Hway L

2025-A9331 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires slow-moving traffic, trucks, buses, and other certain vehicles use the right two lanes of a multilane roadway and requires all lanes other than the right most two lanes on a multilane highway to be marked with "NO TRUCKS OR BUSES".

2025-A9331 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9331
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN, ANGELINO, GIGLIO, MAHER, MOLITOR, MORI-
   NELLO, YEGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transporta-
   tion
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle and traffic law and the highway law, in
   relation to requiring slow-moving traffic, trucks,  buses,  and  other
   certain vehicles use the right two lanes of a multilane roadway
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1128 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E)  UPON  A  ROADWAY  WHICH IS DIVIDED INTO THREE OR MORE LANES TO BE
 USED BY TRAFFIC MOVING IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION,  SLOW-MOVING  TRAFFIC,
 TRUCKS, BUSES, AND TYPES OF VEHICLES SPECIFIED BY THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
 ONLY  USE  THE  TWO  RIGHT MOST LANES EXCEPT IN PREPARATION FOR MAKING A
 LEFT TURN, IN PREPARATION FOR USING A LEFT EXIT, OR WHERE REQUIRED BY  A
 TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICE.
   § 2. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 333 to read as
 follows:
   §  333.  MARKING  OF CERTAIN LANES. EACH ROADWAY WHICH IS DIVIDED INTO
 THREE OR MORE LANES TO BE  USED  EXCLUSIVELY  BY  TRAFFIC  MOVING  IN  A
 PARTICULAR  DIRECTION SHALL HAVE EACH LANE OTHER THAN THE TWO RIGHT MOST
 LANES MARKED WITH "NO TRUCKS OR BUSES".
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
 the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
 sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13933-01-5

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