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Subcommittee pauses bill that would create civil liability for mapping companies over private-road trespass
Summary
Senate Bill 1145 (substitute) sought to create civil liability in certain trespass cases when mapping or routing services direct drivers onto private roads; the subcommittee heard broad stakeholder testimony, but members laid the bill on the table to allow further work on language clarifying intermediary liability and enforcement standards.
The subcommittee debated Senate Bill 1145, which would clarify civil trespass liability when a person or a commercial delivery driver enters private roads after following directions from a mapping or routing service.
The sponsor said the substitute narrows the bill to require that a person be driving "on a private road for the purpose of getting to a public road," removing applications solely to private driveways and easing concern about incidental misrouting. The…
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