Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to the use and calibration of automated or remote systems for traffic law enforcement
Topics:Transportation
Same legislation: SF 2352
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 19, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2022
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 21, 2022
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 2352 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 2352 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill limits certain excessive speed violations that counties, municipalities, and other local boards or bodies having authority to adopt local police regulations (local authorities) may enforce by use of an automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement (ATE system) and requires local authorities to calibrate ATE systems under their jurisdiction. The bill prohibits a local authority from enforcing violations for exceeding the speed limit by less than miles per hour identified through the use of an ATE system if the moneys collected from citations issued from all of the local authority’s ATE systems equal or exceed 250 percent of the municipal infraction and scheduled fine revenue collected by the local authority in the previous fiscal year from traffic citations issued by the local authority’s peace officers or other officials.
Read the full explanation
Under the bill, a violation for exceeding the speed limit by miles per hour or more is always enforceable regardless of whether it is identified by an ATE system. The bill requires a local authority to have its ATE systems examined and calibrated by a qualified person at least every three months. Citations issued by a local authority using an ATE system are void and unenforceable if the violation is for exceeding a speed limit by less than miles per hour and the revenue threshold has been met, or if the ATE system has not been examined and calibrated as required under the bill. The bill defines “automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement” as the term is used in the bill. The bill applies only to local authorities with a population of 12,000 or less, according to the most recent federal decennial census.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Senate subcommittee
Named January 25, 2022. On January 26, 2022 it recommended passage.
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Fiscal note
Senate File 2352 is estimated to decrease revenue to local authorities. The full fiscal impact of the Bill cannot be estimated.
- Automated Traffic Cameras, Maximum Revenue · March 3, 2022
Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note
Iowa Code it changes
Creates§321.492C
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
2 for · 4 against · 8 undecided · Who →
Family tree
Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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