H-1441

   Amend Senate File 220, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  By striking page 5, line 22, through page 6, line 11, and inserting: 
   <h.  (1)  Prior to a local authority placing an automated traffic law enforcement system on a primary road, the local authority shall obtain approval from the department in accordance with rules adopted by the department. A local authority shall submit to the department any information requested by the department during the approval process. If the local authority’s use of the system is approved by the department, the local authority shall follow the requirements set forth in rules adopted by the department. The department may modify its rules relating to automated traffic law enforcement systems to the extent necessary to ensure automated traffic law enforcement systems are operated in a safe and equitable manner. The department may annually review all automated traffic law enforcement systems placed on primary roads and may require the removal or modification of such systems. This subparagraph (1) shall not apply to an automated traffic law enforcement system approved or allowed to operate in accordance with rules adopted by the department and in operation prior to January 1, 2017. A local authority may continue to operate such a system in the same manner as the system was operated prior to January 1, 2017. However, after a local authority discontinues operation or alters the manner of operation of such a system, any new manner of operation or new system operated by the local authority shall comply with this subparagraph (1).
   (2)  On or before July 1, 2019, a local authority, or another entity on a local authority’s behalf, operating an automated traffic law enforcement system on a primary road shall discontinue operating the system and remove the system equipment. On and after July 1, 2019, a local authority shall not place, cause to be placed, operate, maintain, or employ the use of an automated traffic law enforcement system on a primary road.>
   2.  Page 8, after line 6 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  LOCAL ORDINANCES VOID —— VALIDITY OF PRIOR NOTICES AND CITATIONS.  On and after July 1, 2017, all local ordinances governing automated traffic law enforcement systems inconsistent with this Act are void. However, any notice of violation mailed or any citation issued pursuant to such an ordinance prior to July 1, 2017, shall not be invalidated by the enactment of this Act and shall be processed according to the provisions of the law under which it was authorized.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  The section of this Act relating to the validity of prior notices and citations, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.>
   3.  Title page, line 2, by striking <and providing a penalty> and inserting <providing a penalty, and including effective date provisions>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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LANDON of Polk