Amendment #290 to H3400

Clarifying headlight law as non-surchargeable offense for insurance purposes

Representatives Straus of Mattapoisett, Linsky of Natick, Gregoire of Marlborough, Mark of Peru, Provost of Somerville, O'Day of West Boylston, Galvin of Canton, Gifford of Wareham, Cariddi of North Adams, Campbell of Methuen, Howitt of Seekonk, Parisella of Beverly, Ayers of Quincy, Schmid of Westport, Dykema of Holliston, Sánchez of Boston, Finn of West Springfield, Chan of Quincy, Fiola of Fall River, Kuros of Uxbridge, Ehrlich of Marblehead, Jones of North Reading, Tosado of Springfield, Pignatelli of Lenox, Dwyer of Woburn, Vega of Holyoke, Kafka of Stoughton, Durant of Spencer, Orrall of Lakeville, Vieira of Falmouth, Cutler of Duxbury, Khan of Newton, Haddad of Somerset, Puppolo of Springfield, Garlick of Needham, Muradian of Grafton, Peisch of Wellesley, Hunt of Boston, Zlotnik of Gardner, Garry of Dracut, Bradley of Hingham, Ashe of Longmeadow, Koczera of New Bedford, Stanley of Waltham, Scibak of South Hadley, Peake of Provincetown, Cronin of Easton, Madden of Nantucket, Tucker of Salem, Timilty of Milton, Hogan of Stow, Speliotis of Danvers, Fernandes of Milford, Rogers of Cambridge, Fox of Boston, Cantwell of Marshfield, McKenna of Webster, Rosa of Leominster, Whipps Lee of Athol, Heroux of Attleboro, Whelan of Brewster, DiNatale of Fitchburg, Kane of Shrewsbury, Garballey of Arlington, Carvalho of Boston, Dooley of Norfolk, Murphy of Weymouth, Muratore of Plymouth, Walsh of Framingham, Gonzalez of Springfield, Hecht of Watertown, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, McMurtry of Dedham, Lyons of Andover, Donato of Medford, Calter of Kingston, Cole of Peabody, Poirier of North Attleborough, D'Emilia of Bridgewater, Mirra of West Newbury, Lombardo of Billerica, Livingstone of Boston and Wagner of Chicopee move to amend the bill by adding the following sections:

"SECTION XXXX. Section 15 of chapter 85 of the General Laws, as amended by chapter 481 of the acts of 2014, is hereby further amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:-

Notwithstanding any general or special law or regulation to the contrary, a violation of this section shall not be considered as a conviction of a moving violation of the motor vehicle laws or a surchargeable incident or offense under section 113B of chapter 175 or under any merit rating plan or safe driver insurance plan.

SECTION XXXX.  The effective date of section XXXX shall be as of April 7, 2015".

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #290 to H3400

Clarifying headlight law as non-surchargeable offense for insurance purposes