technical correction; overtaking bicycles

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on what happens when there is no bike lane available or mentions smaller accidents.

Fixing Rules for Cars Passing Bicycles

This bill changes the rules to ensure cars leave at least three feet of space when passing bicycles on the road.

What This Bill Does

• Changes a rule about how much space cars need to give bicycles when passing them, requiring at least three feet of clearance.
• Adds fines if a car hits a bicycle while not following this new rule and causes serious injury or death.

Who It Names or Affects

• Drivers of cars who need to pass bicycles on the road.
• Bicyclists who ride near car traffic.

Terms To Know

Civil penalty

A fine or punishment for breaking a rule, but not as serious as criminal charges.

Vehicle regulation

Rules that control how vehicles like cars and bicycles should be used on the road.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a car hits a bicycle when there is no bike lane available.
• It only addresses fines for serious injuries or death, but doesn't mention smaller accidents.

Official Summary Text

SB1652 - technical correction; overtaking bicycles

Current Bill Text

SB1652 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
technical correction; overtaking bicycles

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1652

Introduced by

Senator
Finchem

AN
ACT

amending section 28-735, Arizona Revised
Statutes; relating to vehicle regulation.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 28-735, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
28-735.

Overtaking bicycles; civil penalties

A. When overtaking and passing a bicycle proceeding
in the same direction, a person driving a motor vehicle shall exercise due care
by leaving a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the bicycle of not
less than three feet until the motor vehicle is safely past the overtaken
bicycle.

B. If a person violates this section and the
violation results in a collision causing:

1. Serious physical injury as defined in section 13-105
to another person, the violator is subject to a civil penalty of up to five
hundred dollars.

2. Death to another person, the violator is subject
to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars.

C. Subsection B of this section does not apply
to

if
a bicyclist
who

is injured in a vehicular traffic lane when a designated bicycle lane or path
is present and passable.
END_STATUTE