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State	Signed into law	Signed bill	Effective date	Vehicle allowed to filter	Allowed roadway	Filtering speed limit in miles per hour (km/h)	Maximum speed of traffic to be overtaken in miles per hour (km/h)
Arizona	23 March 2022	Senate Bill 1273	24 September 2022	Motorcycle with two wheels	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	15 (24)	0 (0)
California	19 August 2016	Assembly Bill 51	1 January 2017	Motorcycle with two wheels	Any, not on the shoulder	Lane splitting allowed
Colorado	4 April 2024	Senate Bill 79	from 7 August 2024 until 1 July 2028 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	15 (24)	0 (0)
Minnesota	24 May 2024	House Fiscal 5247	1 July 2025	Motorcycle defined in section 169.011, subdivision 44	Any	25 (40)	Overtaking motorcycle speed minus up to 15 (24)
Montana	2 March 2021	Senate Bill 9 archive copy at the Wayback Machine	1 October 2021	Motorcycle with two wheels	Any with lanes wide enough	20 (32)	10 (16)
Utah	21 March 2019	House Bill 149	14 May 2019	Motorcycle other than an autocycle	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	15 (24)	0 (0)
	22 March 2022	House Bill 10	until 1 July 2027 date QS:P,+2027-07-01T00:00:00Z/7,P582,+2027-07-01T00:00:00Z/11
	20 March 2024	House Bill 311	1 May 2024		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
	25 March 2025	House Bill 190	1 January 2026		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, while newly defined lane splitting would face specific penalties

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.) Montana (A bill in 2017 [4] died.) Blue-gray: with considerable limits, like where on the road and/or future expiry of permissive law: 3 states Arizona (The bills in 2020 [5], 2018 [6] [7], and 2010 [8]) died.) Colorado (The bills in 2023 [9] and 2016 [10] died.) Utah (The bills in 2017 [11] and 2014 [12] died.) Not authorized or legally referenced for motorcycles: Yellow: with filed legalizing bills: 4 states Mississippi (2016 [13]) Missouri (2025 [14], 2024 [15], 2023 [16]) New Jersey (2022 [17], 2012 [18], 2010 [19], 2008 [20], 2006 [21]) Rhode Island (2025 [22] [23] [24], 2024 [25], 2023 [26], 2020 [27]) 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: Red: with filed legalizing bills: 15 states Connecticut (2025 [28], 2019 [29]) Georgia (2015-16 [30]) 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. [31] [32] Illinois (2006 [33]) Maryland (2020 [34], 2019 [35]) Massachusetts (2025 [36], 2023-24 [37], 2019-20 [38] [39] 2007 [40], 2005 [41]) Michigan (2025 [42] with bicycle lane splitting ban from 2006 Law removed by 2010 Law) Nevada (2013 [43]) New Hampshire (2025 [44], 2016 [45]) Oklahoma (2024 [46] [47], 2021 [48]) Oregon (2025 [49]. 2023 [50], 2021 [51], 2019 [52], 2017 [53], 2015 [54] [55], 2013 [56] [57]) Tennessee (2023 [58] [59], 2016-17 [60], 2015 [61] [62]) Texas (effective September 1, 2023 per the House Bill 4122 after bills in 2019 [63], 2018-19 [64], 2017 [65], 2015 [66] [67], 2009 [68], and 2005 [69] failed to allow filtering, with a pending permissive bill in 2025 [70]) Virginia (2022 [71], 2020 [72], 2019 [73]) Washington (2023-24 [74] [75], 2021 [76], 2019-20 [77], 2017 [78] [79], 2015-16 [80], 2008 [81] [82])) Black: without filed legalizing bills known: Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and 16 states Alabama Alaska Florida Indiana Iowa Kansas Louisiana Maine Nebraska New York (moped with top speed up to 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) allowed on shoulder of permissive highway) North Dakota Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Vermont Wyoming
Date	27 August 2021
Source	File:Blank_USA,_w_territories.svg for map and info from File:USA lane splitting legality.png
Author	User:DemonDays64, shape by User:Heitordp
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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	05:20, 29 January 2024	958 × 602 (191 KB)	Jusjih	Sadly Texas started banning filtering since 2023-09-01 after no direct law earlier, thus changed from yellow to red.
	01:56, 28 February 2023	958 × 602 (191 KB)	Jusjih	Updated Missouri and Rhode Island and colored District of Columbian and the Northern Mariana Islands
	02:46, 7 April 2022	958 × 602 (191 KB)	Jusjih	Oklahoma filed a bill, thus changed from black to red.
	03:07, 1 April 2022	958 × 602 (191 KB)	DemonDays64	Update w/ AZ https://www.12news.com/article/traffic/arizona-new-motorcycle-law/75-b15323c8-b37d-4631-bc6f-fb1e2032734f
	00:57, 29 March 2022	958 × 602 (191 KB)	DemonDays64	Comments
	03:31, 28 August 2021	958 × 602 (191 KB)	DemonDays64	{{current}} {{NoInkscape}} {{Information \|Description ={{en\|1=Lane splitting and filtering legality and related legislative bills in the [https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/motorcycle/00-NHT-212-motorcycle/motorcycle51.html USA], coded with colors per states: Yes for motorcycles to get through traffic jam with existing or near future laws: *Green: 2 states #California: The Governor on August 19, 2016 approved the Assembly [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.x...