SB1209
Photo speed monitoring devices; private vendors compensated for calibration, civil penalty.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Photo speed monitoring devices; private vendors; calibration; civil penalty.
Reduces from 12 months to six months the validity of a calibration or testing of a photo speed monitoring device and requires any state or local law-enforcement agency that places and operates such a device to conduct an additional daily test of the accuracy of the device. The bill also ... (More) requires any such law-enforcement agency to include in its annual report of certain information to the Department of State Police the operating costs of the use of such device. The bill requires any private vendor that has entered into an agreement with a law-enforcement agency to provide a photo speed monitoring device and is also compensated for the calibration of such device to calibrate such device in the same manner and to the same specifications as all other devices determining speed, to the extent that such devices utilize the same method of speed detection as such photo speed monitoring device, used by such law-enforcement agency. The bill also (i) requires such a private vendor to provide, within 10 days of a request by a person receiving a summons by mail for a vehicle speed violation recorded by a photo speed monitoring device provided by such private vendor, for proof of calibration for such photo speed monitoring device; (ii) requires such a summons to provide notice of such right to request such proof of calibration; and (iii) imposes a civil penalty on any private vendor who fails to provides such proof of calibration within such time. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102448D
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1209)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Reported from Transportation with substitute and rereferred to Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25105650D-S1
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106383D-S2
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Transportation Substitute rejected
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/07/2025 - House: Assigned Trans sub: Innovations (Ad Hoc)
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 02/12/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Courts of Justice(Voice Vote)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1209)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Referred from Transportation and referred to Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/18/2025 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
