I helped and voted for you...up here we have a 3' rule. Many drivers adhere to it, some will even give you 6'. On rare occasions we get the violators, but I've yet to find some place where the jerks don't live <sigh />.

Riding in Texas we were buzzed much more often. I don't know if they a 3' law or if it is just the culture (we were in ranch country where pickups and guns rule). At some of their passing distances, all it would take was a tiny gust of wind and I'd have been history. <shudder />

Good luck getting this passed (and then enforced)!