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State
Signed into law
Signed bill
Effective date
Vehicle allowed to filter
Allowed roadway
Filtering speed limit in miles an hour (km/h)
Maximum speed of traffic to be overtaken in miles an hour (km/h)
Roadway with a speed limit of 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) or less, only if divided into two or more adjacent traffic lanes in the same direction of travel
date QS:P,+2024-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+2024-08-07T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+2028-07-01T00:00:00Z/11
Motorcycle with two wheels
Any with lanes wide enough but not: on the right shoulder; to the right of a vehicle in the farthest right-hand lane if the highway is not limited access; or in a lane of traffic moving in the opposite direction
Roadway with a speed limit of 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) or less, only if divided into two or more adjacent traffic lanes in the same direction of travel
Roadway with a speed limit of 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) or less or an off-ramp, only if divided into two or more adjacent traffic lanes in the same direction of travel
DescriptionUSA lane splitting legality.svg
English: Lane splitting and filtering legality and related legislative bills in the USA, coded with colors per states:
Yes for motorcycles to get through traffic jam within the conditions in the above table:
Green: considerably permissive: 3 states
California
Minnesota (The bills in 2024 [1][2] and 2017 [3] died.)
Orange: without filed legalizing bills known: District of Columbia and 9 states (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
No for motorcycles, often except police officers on duty:
Hawaii: The bill to allow the Department of Transportation to conditionally allow motorcycling on shoulders became law as Act 218 on July 12, 2018, to take effect on January 1, 2019 and to repeal on December 31, 2020, after failing two bills in 2017. [26][27]
Texas (effective September 1, 2023 per the House Bill 4122 after bills in 2019 [54], 2018-19 [55], 2017 [56], 2015 [57][58], 2009 [59], and 2005 [60] failed to allow filtering)
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