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Committee clears bill to repeal outdated motorist-tag seizure law
Summary
The Oklahoma House Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to advance House Bill 2215, a measure sponsored at the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association request to remove a 2012 temporary motorist liability/tag-seizure law the association says is obsolete due to modern license-plate reader technology.
Representative Bayshore presented House Bill 2215 to the Oklahoma House Public Safety Committee and said it was requested by the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association. “It is the temporary motorist liability protection law that has become outdated,” Bayshore said, adding the law was created in 2012 using a 2010 spreadsheet and currently requires sheriff’s departments to physically remove vehicle tags.
Bayshore told the committee the law has become obsolete because district attorneys now use license-plate readers, and the physical removal of tags creates a liability for sheriff’s offices. “Due to technology advancements the Sheriff’s Association has asked this to be stricken from the books,” he said, and moved for passage.
Committee members made a motion to “do pass,” there was no debate, and the committee recorded a 4-0 vote in favor. The chair said he would report the bill as passed and move it forward to the next step in the process.
The committee’s action was procedural: the bill was advanced from the committee with no recorded amendments or conditions attached.
