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Senate updates law for personal delivery devices, allows local regulation and crosswalk limits
Summary
Senate Bill 1625 modernizes Tennessee’s personal delivery device statute, clarifies local governments may regulate or prohibit devices for safety, restricts device travel to roadways with speed limits at or below 45 mph, and bars interstate travel; amendment adopted and bill passed on third reading.
Senate Bill 1625 was amended and passed on third and final consideration to update the state’s law on personal delivery devices.
Chairman Massey described the amendment adopted from the Transportation Committee. The amendment confirms that local resolutions may regulate or prohibit the devices where local governments determine public safety requires it, restricts device travel on shoulders and certain roadways to those with posted speed limits of 45 miles per hour or lower, allows crosswalk use only if the device can properly identify signage and yield to cars, and clarifies the devices cannot operate on interstates.
The amendment was adopted without recorded debate and the bill passed as amended. The measure was presented as a modernization to reflect advances in delivery technology since the statute’s 2020 enactment.
