Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms
Sponsored by Sen. Tom Shipley (R)
Topics:Transportation
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Railroad companies must install at least two warning signs and enough flashing lights and gate arms at every place their tracks cross a public road. These tools are meant to warn people that a train is coming. The railroad company is responsible for paying for all of these safety items.1
Read the official explanation
15). railway crosses any public road good, sufficient, and safe crossings and erect at such points, at a sufficient elevation from such road as to admit a free passage of vehicles of every kind, a sign with large and distinct letters placed thereon, to give notice of the proximity of the railway, and warn persons of the necessity of looking out for trains. This bill requires a railroad corporation constructing or operating a railway to erect at least two such signs, and install a sufficient number of gate arms, gate arm signals, and crossing signal lights designed to flash when a train approaches a crossing, to give notice of the proximity of the railway and warn persons of the necessity of looking out for trains. The bill provides that the railroad corporation is responsible for all associated costs.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2025. On January 28, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2113 Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 349 Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 501 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 501 Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2113 · same titleCleared committee
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