LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Starting early next year, Nevada lawmakers will begin the work to research and help craft a future law for e-scooters and e-bikes across Nevada.
The Joint Interim Standing Committee on the Judiciary will take on the task of interviewing experts and analyzing other state laws. The work will lead to language for a future bill in the next Legislative Session– or even a special session.
“Because we have all of those meetings during the interim… there could be a bill ready on day one for this. We could get it through the session really fast if it’s done all right,” said Assemblymember Venicia Considine of Clark County, who presented Assembly Concurrent Resolution 4.
Lawmakers could not create e-bike and e-scooter legislation during the 36th Special Session; it did not appear on agreed agendas put forth by the governor or Legislature.
Considine and other lawmakers have heard plenty of concerns from locals who want legislative action to regulate these devices. “Several of us have heard a lot from many people in the community just worried about kids, worried about drivers, worried about safety,” she said.
Local jurisdictions like Clark County can pass their own ordinances with limits; the County has restricted unfettered use in parks, and mandated helmets for people under 18.
A state law can regulate a range of restrictions: age, helmet requirements across Nevada, training and education, locations for use, and fines.
The lengthy legwork can begin to craft the right law for Nevada– and do research right now. “And then craft something that works for Nevada,” Considine said. “What we don’t want is to create something that we think will be really good for the community and really good for safety– and then have people push back on it hard because there’s one piece they don’t like. Then the message of we’re trying to make people safe could get lost. You want to make sure that if this is going to be a state law, that it works for the whole state as well,” she said.
While laws take time to create, enforce and inform the public, Considine and other traffic advocates emphasize that safety education can begin now and save lives now.
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