THE SENATE

PART I: Requires sellers and licensed dealers to ensure that a motor vehicle is equipped with a front number plate mounting bracket or device. Requires a seller, licensed dealer, or owner to securely fasten number plates on vehicles. PART II: Amends the Traffic Code relating to street racing. PART III: Expands the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program to high-risk locations of state or county highways as determined by the Department of Transportation, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds. PART IV: Establishes the Automated License Plate Recognition Systems Program. Allows the State and counties to administer the Automated License Plate Recognition Systems Program for the purpose of using automatic license plate recognition systems to identify vehicles without current inspection or registration certificates. Establishes a process for summons or citations to be issued for an offense based upon a photo or other image taken by an automatic license plate recognition system. Establishes a registered owner's liability for a summons or citation issued under the Automated License Plate Recognition Systems Program. Specifies that the district court shall issue a notice of entry of judgment of default to a registered owner that fails to respond to a citation issued under the Automated License Plate

TRS/EIG/EDU, WAM/JDC

Recognition Systems Program. Establishes fines for the unauthorized disclosure of all personal and confidential information made available by an automatic license plate recognition system. PART V: Authorizes school buses to install a school bus infraction detection system on the stop arm of the school bus. Establishes a process for summons or citations to be issued for an offense based upon a photo or other image taken by a school bus infraction detection system. Prohibits a school bus infraction detection system from using or being equipped with facial recognition software or biometric identification technology. Clarifies liability for a lessor of a rental or U-drive motor vehicle. Specifies the penalties imposed on drivers who are determined to have violated overtaking and passing school bus laws through a school bus infraction detection system. Clarifies the liability of registered vehicle owners in the same lane as, or in a lane adjacent to, a school bus that is actively monitored by a school bus infraction detection system. Appropriates funds. PART VI: Specifies that the Department of Transportation's Motor Vehicle Safety Office shall administer the Photo Red Light Imaging Detector Systems Program Special Fund and Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program Special Fund. PART VII: Clarifies language relating to photo red light enforcement, automated speed enforcement, and penalty provisions. PART VIII: Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules allowing for mobile vehicle safety inspections of passenger cars. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)

HB 1888, HD3, SD1

(SSCR3388)

Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE SAFETY OF EDUCATIONAL WORKERS.

Part I: Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers, including sports officials. Authorizes the Attorney General to assist educational workers who have been subject to harassment or intentional bodily injury in obtaining a temporary restraining order. Part II: Clarifies that a sports official includes a school or league administrator. Clarifies that a sports official's duties cover sports events at public schools and private schools. Makes intentional bodily injury of an educational worker or a sports official engaged in the lawful discharge of their duties a class B felony. Part III: Elevates the penalty for harassment of educational workers to a misdemeanor. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)

EDU/LBT, JDC/WAM

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Senator Karl Rhoads

Chair

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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz

Chair