2025 bills / H.B. 222
H.B. 222 Access to Traffic Accident Evidence (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill would let an attorney representing someone involved in a traffic accident obtain certain accident records, including some unredacted records that are normally protected. It also sets out who would be liable if such a protected record is unlawfully shared publicly.
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Official description
- amends definitions and defines terms
- provides for disclosure of certain records and certain unredacted records relevant to an accident to an attorney representing a person involved in the accident
- provides for the disclosure of certain protected records to an attorney representing a person involved in a relevant accident and defines liability if such a record is unlawfully shared publicly
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 222 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 222 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 6 yes, 1 no, 4 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 1 no, 1 absentFinal House vote · Feb 11, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 0 no, 9 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how