Senate backs a day to teach people about Move Over Laws
S.Res. 527 — A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of a National Move Over Law Day. · Filed by Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Dec 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This is a statement that supports creating a National Move Over Law Day. The day would teach people about state laws. These laws require drivers to change lanes or slow down near workers. The workers are police, firefighters, paramedics, tow truck operators, and road workers. It asks national and state groups to help teach the public.
Who it affects
Police, firefighters, paramedics, tow truck operators, and road workers stay safer. Drivers learn about laws that protect these workers. Roads become safer for everyone.
One thing to notice
This statement does not create a new law. It only supports a day to teach people about Move Over Laws that exist in states.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Dec 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Dec 3, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $10,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 31 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Richard Blumenthal, who sponsored the bill, received $110,550 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Volunteer Fire Council — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Move Over Law — A state law that requires drivers to change lanes or slow down near workers.
- National Move Over Law Day — A day created to teach people about laws that protect roadside workers.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 5, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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