AB168 - Revises provisions relating to bicycles. (BDR 43-598)

(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 14, 2025) FIRST REPRINT A.B. 168 - *AB168_R1* ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 168–ASSEMBLYMEMBERS GOULDING; BROWN-MAY, DICKMAN AND WATTS PREFILED JANUARY 31, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to bicycles. (BDR 43-598) FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No. Effect on the State: No. ~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. AN ACT relating to public safety; revising provisions governing the operation of a bicycle on a roadway; providing a civil penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel’s Digest: Existing law grants certain rights to a person operating a bicycle upon a 1 roadway and subjects any such person to certain duties and responsibilities while 2 operating the bicycle on a roadway. (NRS 484B.760-484B.785) Section 1 of this 3 bill: (1) requires a person operating a bicycle to stop in obedience to a stop sign or 4 signal displaying a steady red light; and (2) creates an exception to the requirement 5 to stop in obedience to a stop sign if the person can safely proceed through the 6 intersection without stopping and certain other requirements are met. Section 1 also 7 authorizes a person operating a bicycle to proceed cautiously through an 8 intersection where the signal is a steady red signal or make certain turns if the 9 person stops before entering the intersection and certain other requirements are met. 10 Section 2 of this bill provides that a violation of the provisions of section 1 is a 11 civil infraction. Section 3 of this bill makes a conforming change to indicate the 12 applicability of the requirements prescribed by section 1. 13 – 2 – - *AB168_R1* THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Chapter 484B of NRS is hereby amended by adding 1 thereto a new section to read as follows: 2 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person 3 operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall stop in obedience to a 4 stop sign or traffic-control signal displaying a steady red signal. 5 2. A person operating a bicycle approaching an intersection 6 controlled by a stop sign may proceed cautiously through the 7 intersection without stopping if the person: 8 (a) Ascertains that such movement can be made safely; 9 (b) Decreases the speed of the bicycle and confirms that the 10 intersection is clear before entering the intersection; and 11 (c) Yields the right-of-way to pedestrians and all vehicles 12 whose proximity constitutes an immediate hazard. 13 3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, a person 14 operating a bicycle upon a roadway may proceed cautiously 15 through an intersection where the signal is a steady red signal or 16 make a turn through any such intersection if the person: 17 (a) Stops before entering the intersection as required by 18 subsection 1; 19 (b) Ascertains that such movement can be made safely; and 20 (c) Yields the right-of-way to pedestrians and all vehicles 21 whose proximity constitutes an immediate hazard. 22 4. A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall not turn 23 left through an intersection where the signal is a steady red signal 24 unless the roadway onto which the person is turning is a one-way 25 roadway. 26 Sec. 2. NRS 484B.760 is hereby amended to read as follows: 27 484B.760 1. It is a civil infraction punishable pursuant to 28 NRS 484A.703 to 484A.705, inclusive, for any person to do any act 29 forbidden or fail to perform any act required in NRS 484B.768 to 30 484B.790, inclusive [.] , and section 1 of this act. 31 2. The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall 32 not authorize or knowingly permit the child or ward to violate any 33 of the provisions of chapters 484A to 484E, inclusive, of NRS. 34 3. The provisions applicable to bicycles, electric bicycles and 35 electric scooters apply whenever a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an 36 electric scooter is operated upon any highway or upon any path set 37 aside for the exclusive use of bicycles, electric bicycles and electric 38 scooters subject to those exceptions stated herein. 39 Sec. 3. NRS 484B.763 is hereby amended to read as follows: 40 484B.763 Every person riding a bicycle, an electric bicycle or 41 an electric scooter upon a roadway has all of the rights and is subject 42 – 3 – - *AB168_R1* to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle except as 1 otherwise provided in NRS 484B.767 to 484B.790, inclusive, and 2 section 1 of this act, and except as to those provisions of chapters 3 484A to 484E, inclusive, of NRS which by their nature can have no 4 application. 5 H