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Committee adopts House Bill 2154 to let counties designate limited safety corridors
Summary
The Joint Committee on Transportation adopted House Bill 2154 with a dash-2 amendment on Feb. 24. The amendment clarifies that a county's board of commissioners may designate safety corridors on county‑jurisdiction road segments that the board finds demonstrate a safety concern; the measure limits counties to two active corridors at a time.
House Bill 2154, intended to allow counties to designate safety corridors on county roads, was adopted by the Joint Committee on Transportation on Feb. 24 with a dash‑2 amendment.
The dash‑2 amendment specifies that the Board of County Commissioners is the entity that may designate a safety corridor on a segment over which the county has jurisdiction and that doing so must not exceed the per‑county limit of two active safety corridors at one time. The amendment has a minimal fiscal and minimal revenue impact, committee staff said.
A committee motion to adopt House Bill 2154 with the dash‑2 amendment (dated Feb. 13, 2025) was made by the committee co‑chair and passed by voice vote with no objections. The co‑chair subsequently moved the bill as amended to the floor “with a due pass recommendation.” Representative Bossart Davis agreed to carry the bill on the House floor; Senator Pham agreed to carry it on the Senate side.
Committee staff described the policy as giving counties local authority to identify road segments with demonstrable safety concerns while capping the number of active corridors to two, so counties may add a new corridor only when another closes out.
Next steps: House Bill 2154 as amended was moved to the floor with a due pass recommendation and named lawmakers to carry it on the respective chambers’ floors.
