Prohibiting the use of automated or remote systems for traffic law enforcement, including prohibiting the sharing of related information and requiring the removal of existing systems, and including effective date provisions

Sponsored by the Senate Judiciary Committee

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedFebruary 17, 2022
Done: SubcommitteeMarch 10, 2022
Done: Senate committeeFebruary 17, 2022
Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: House committee
Next: Passes the House
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill prohibits the state or a local authority from placing or causing to be placed on or adjacent to a highway, or maintaining or employing the use of, any automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement (ATE system). The bill prohibits the department of transportation and the department of public safety from providing information used to impose or collect a civil penalty that results from a violation captured by an ATE system through an existing interstate compact agreement unless the agreement specifically allows or requires that information to be shared or provided for that specific purpose.

Read the full explanation

The bill defines “automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement” to mean a camera or other optical device designed to work in conjunction with an official traffic control signal or speed measuring device to identify motor vehicles operating in violation of traffic laws, the use of which results in the issuance of citations sent through the mail or by electronic means. The bill requires that prior to July 1, 2022, a local authority using an ATE system must discontinue using the system and remove the system equipment. On and after July 1, 2022, all local ordinances authorizing the use of ATE systems are void. However, the bill provides that any citation issued or mailed pursuant to such an ordinance prior to July 1, 2022, is not invalidated by the bill and must be processed according to the provisions of law under which the citation was authorized. This provision of the bill takes effect upon enactment.

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Senate subcommittee

Named March 10, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Fiscal note

Less revenue: up to $65,000 Compare with other bills

Senate File 2319 is estimated to reduce annual revenue to DAS by $65,000 in FY 2023. While cities have discretion on submitting unpaid citations to the Iowa Offset Program, given the stated assumptions the revenue decrease would occur in FY 2023. 6 million per fiscal year. This estimate does not include the decrease in local revenue to Fort Dodge, Council Bluffs, and Waterloo.

Traffic Cameras · March 1, 2022

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§321.492C

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Lobbying

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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

Tried before

SF 343Passed a chamber88th GA

89th General Assembly

SF 2319Cleared committee

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

SF 343 Prohibiting the use of automated or remote systems for traffic law enforcement, including …
88th General Assembly · Passed Senate · same title
Passed a chamber

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