Louisiana's motorcycle helmet law closer to amendment
The Staff of Clutch and Chrome
May 8th 2008
Louisiana has
taken a step closer to amending the State's motorcycle
helmet laws.
A House
committee has approved the repeal of Louisiana's law
mandating helmet use for adult riders, moving the bill to
the house floor for approval. The bill, sponsored by
Representative Mert Smiley, would require bikers under age
18 to wear helmets, but not adults.
Doing it's best
impersonation of a boomerang, Louisiana's
motorcycle helmet law
has come full circle to the legal standards it held earlier this
decade.
The law preceding 2004
mandated riders under 21 to wear helmets with those 21 and
older having a choice as long as they carry at least $10,000
in health coverage. Coincidently, the Governor of Louisiana
at the time, Mike Foster, was an avid rider.
His successor (and now a
former Governor as well) Kathleen Blanco reinstated
mandatory helmet laws for all riders in 2004.
Currently, twenty-one
states have mandatory helmet laws, but that count is kept in
pencil with local governments being lobbied by both sides of
the legal argument. |
