Active Legislation

2023 Legislative Agenda

Road Guard Certification Course: On any given day, we can see large groups of motorcyclists riding to raise funds for charities, for local community members, or in funeral processions. Depending on the location and number of riders, a police escort may be required. This takes our law enforcement agents away from doing what they do best. Protecting and Serving our communities.  In Minnesota for instance, the Road Guard Certification Program, instructs and certifies riders to take the place of those police escorts. It is a one-day course, provided at a small fee per person. The course also would provide an endorsement on that driver’s license, indicating they received the proper training as a Certified Road Guard. We, at the CBA are capable, qualified, and ready to provide this course. We do have several non-profit groups (including law enforcement agencies) who wish to take part in this educational endeavor with us. There will be no cost to the state. We ask for no funds, nothing other than the legislation, providing this opportunity to motorcyclists.  

Motorcycle Awareness Education in Defensive Driving: Statistics are changing. It is no longer teens, but middle and older ages causing most collisions. And people who offend and re-offend are most likely to cause a fatal collision. Often those offenders will at the behest of the court, or voluntarily take a driver improvement course (also called defensive driving), offered at commercial driving schools, to remove points or demerits.  We at (LookTwiceNC) have been teaching teen drivers how to “Share the Road” with all vehicles for over 30 years! In fact, we’ve taught nearly 500,000 drivers live, in-person! It is working. Why not share this radical, life-saving education with those who are most likely to cause a fatal collision? Just as SL2011-145, requires this education for all drivers’ education students, let’s require it for adults, taking defensive driving courses. Again, this is free education. We will provide live instructors where available and videos/links elsewhere.  

Lane Filtering: Is not to be confused with Lane-Splitting, which is when a rider travels between lanes, on a while or yellow line. Lane filtering however is a proven method to saves lives. While motorcyclists are most often hit because a vehicle turns in front of them, the secondary cause of collisions is rear-end crashes. People simply do not see us. We need the ability to protect ourselves. At a traffic stop or traffic jam, Lane Filtering provides that. When vehicles approaching from the rear, cannot or will not stop in time, lane filtering would permit a motorcyclist to filter, to another lane, in between, or to the shoulder area, to avoid being rear-ended.

Motorcycle Equal Access: Many Public parking garages, built with taxpayer funds, are not accessible to motorcycles. Motorcycles are vehicles, must have registration and must obey, the same rules and laws as a cars. However, at those public parking garage, the gates will not register for them, the parking attendants will not permit access and there is no motorcycle parking. We seek equal access to the buildings our taxes have funded.