Bill Summary for H 864 (2025-2026)

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Apr 9 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 864 (Public) Filed Wednesday, April 9, 2025
AN ACT TO REVISE CERTAIN TRAFFIC LAWS AND THE DESIGN OF COLLEGIATE INSIGNIA PLATES.
Intro. by Pickett.

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Amends GS 20-141(h) to prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle in the left lane of a multi-lane highway at a speed that impedes traffic. Amends GS 20-141(c) to increase the minimum operating speed on interstate and primary highways to forty-five miles per hour in a fifty-five mile-per-hour zone and fifty miles per hour in a sixty mile-per-hour or greater zone. Amends GS 20-146 to add that motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 pounds or more shall not operate in the left lane of a controlled-access highway with six or more lanes. Effective December 1, 2025.

Amends GS 20-63(b1) to add Collegiate Insignia Plate as a special registration plate. Amends GS 20-81.12(b30) to specify that 300 applications for a college insignia plate are required before the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) can issue a standard-background plate and 500 are required before the DMV can develop a full-color background plate. Collegiate insignia plates for a public military college or university require 100 applications. The requestor is responsible for submitting to the DMV the required paid applications and artwork. Authorizes the Revisor of Statutes to alphabetize and renumber the special registration plates in GS 20-63(b1). Allows a college or university with a collegiate insignia plate on a standard background in production to apply to the DMV for a full-color background plate. Requires the DMV to discontinue the standard background plate and issue a full-color background plate upon after approval of artwork by the DMV and the alumni or alumnae association of the college and university, even if the required number of paid applications required by GS 20-63(b1) has not been met. Vehicle owners with collegiate insignia plates on a standard background may request a full-color background plate or keep their plates until surrendered, canceled, revoked, or replaced. Effective October 1, 2025.