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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 628: Relating to automated or remote systems for traffic law enforcement, including by limiting municipalities from placing or using such systems on certain roads and limiting certain penalties

Died when the session ended · The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

Under current law, “primary roads” are those roads and streets both inside and outside the boundaries of municipalities which are under the department of transportation’s jurisdiction, including interstate roads. “Secondary roads” are those roads under county jurisdiction. “Municipal street system” means those streets within municipalities that are not primary roads or secondary roads. This bill prohibits a municipal board or body from placing or causing to be placed, or maintaining or employing the use of, any automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement (ATE system) on primary or secondary roads.

Sponsors

Public Safety committee

Cost

Can’t be estimated

House File 628 is estimated to decrease revenue to local authorities. The full fiscal impact of the Bill cannot be estimated. However, Table 4 includes estimates for the seven cities that provided data to the LSA. Table 5 shows each city’s use of ATE system re…

Lobbying · 1 for, 6 against

For: American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA)

Against: City of Cedar Rapids; City of Des Moines; Iowa Police Chief Association (FKA Iowa Police Executive Forum); Metropolitan Coalition; Sensys Gatso; Verra Mobility

In plain words

  1. March 6, 2023Filed in the House
  2. March 23, 2023Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HF628