Bill Summaries: H864 (2025-2026 Session)

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  • Summary date: Apr 30 2025 - View summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.

    Amends GS 20-141(c) to add minimum operating speeds of 55 mph in a 65 mph speed zone, and 60 mph in a 70 mph speed zone. Directs the Department of Transportation to post replacement signs indicating the new minimum speeds where signs are posted with the previous minimum operating speeds.

    Adds an exception from the prohibition on trucks operating in the left lane for trucks entering or exiting a highway to the proposed subsection (f) in GS 20-146.

    Clarifies that Sections 1 through 3 of the bill (concerning Impeding Traffic, Minimum Operating Speeds, and Trucks in Left Lane) are effective December 1, 2025.


  • Summary date: Apr 9 2025 - View summary

    Amends GS 20-141(h) to prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle in the left lane of a multi-lane highway at a speed that impedes traffic. Amends GS 20-141(c) to increase the minimum operating speed on interstate and primary highways to forty-five miles per hour in a fifty-five mile-per-hour zone and fifty miles per hour in a sixty mile-per-hour or greater zone. Amends GS 20-146 to add that motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 pounds or more shall not operate in the left lane of a controlled-access highway with six or more lanes. Effective December 1, 2025.

    Amends GS 20-63(b1) to add Collegiate Insignia Plate as a special registration plate. Amends GS 20-81.12(b30) to specify that 300 applications for a college insignia plate are required before the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) can issue a standard-background plate and 500 are required before the DMV can develop a full-color background plate. Collegiate insignia plates for a public military college or university require 100 applications. The requestor is responsible for submitting to the DMV the required paid applications and artwork. Authorizes the Revisor of Statutes to alphabetize and renumber the special registration plates in GS 20-63(b1). Allows a college or university with a collegiate insignia plate on a standard background in production to apply to the DMV for a full-color background plate. Requires the DMV to discontinue the standard background plate and issue a full-color background plate upon after approval of artwork by the DMV and the alumni or alumnae association of the college and university, even if the required number of paid applications required by GS 20-63(b1) has not been met. Vehicle owners with collegiate insignia plates on a standard background may request a full-color background plate or keep their plates until surrendered, canceled, revoked, or replaced. Effective October 1, 2025.