HB4225 H R&T AMT

    The Committee on Roads and Transportation moved to amend the title of the bill to read as follows:

    “A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17B-2-14a, relating to establishing an emergency contact database; allowing holders of a drivers license to designate up to three emergency contact persons; requiring the Division of Motor Vehicles to collect the contact information of the emergency contact persons from the licensee; defining terms; providing rule-making authority; requiring law enforcement to check the emergency contact database when a person in a motor vehicle accident is unable to communicate for an emergency contact person; and providing a limitation on liability for inability of law enforcement to contact the emergency contact in certain situations.