CONCORD, N.H. — Senators from New Hampshire, Wisconsin and West Virginia have introduced legislation to end federal funding for motorcycle-only checkpoints.
The bill introduced on Wednesday is sponsored by New Hampshire's senators — Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Kelly Ayotte — along with Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin. The bill would prohibit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from issuing grants to states to set up checkpoints where motorcycle riders are targeted by police to check that their vehicles meet state standards for noise, tire condition and other requirements.
The senators argue that the checkpoints are discriminatory, and they note that motorcycle riders already are subject to state registration, inspection, licensing and helmet laws and must stop at sobriety check points like all other drivers.

 

It will never pass... too much money on writing tickets for loud pipes.

 

The AMA has been fighting this for quite a while ... Hopefully they have been instrumental in helping to quash this ridiculous and discriminatory act.

 

Already illegal in California.

 

Should never have been a law anyways-just sayin'....

 

Wow. For once making discrimination illegal would work in our favor.

 

Never was a law. Just wasn't specifically illegal until the Legislature passed a law (AB 1047) banning them and Jerry Brown (believe it or not) signed it.

 

His head must have been somewhere else and he signed it by mistake.

 

Yep. Its all about revenue. Tickets are nothing but revenue generating devices.

 

The WV senator, Manchin, has his own bike & is a huge advocate of motorcycle awareness in WV......And at one point, it was thought he was a member of this forum.