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Subcommittee adopts amendment to let small localities use assigned law enforcement and issue warning mails for new speed cameras
Summary
Delegate Jones and subcommittee members adopted an amendment to House Bill 1664 to require warning notices by mail — rather than summonses — for the first 30 days after a new photo speed monitoring device begins operating, and to allow small localities without police to partner with assigned law-enforcement agencies by memorandum of understanding.
Delegate Jones presented an amendment to House Bill 1664 that would align the bill with a separate measure by Delegate Holly Seibold, requiring a warning rather than a summons during the first 30 days of operation for any new photo speed monitoring device placed after July 1, 2025.
The amendment adds a subsection to give the first 30 days of a new camera’s operation a warning-by-mail procedure instead of immediately issuing a summons. "Basically what it does is come into alignment with the other pieces of legislation, specifically Delegate Holly Seibold's piece of legislation dealing with notification for any new speed safety camera placed and operated after July '1 for for the first 30 days of its operation locality or law enforcement agency shall issue a warning by mail instead of a summons," Delegate Jones said.
The amendment also clarifies how smaller localities without their own police forces could participate: the locality would develop a memorandum of understanding with the county or sheriff’s office assigned to that area to handle notice and summons processing. "What a smaller locality would do is give it to the law enforcement agency that's assigned to them," Jones said, noting Hamilton, Virginia, as an example where the Loudoun County Sheriff provides law enforcement services.
The Virginia Municipal League indicated conditional support for the concept pending review of the final amendment language. During public comment, a Fauquier County speaker described rising fatalities and voiced support for speed-camera technology.
The subcommittee voted to report House Bill 1664 as amended; the clerk recorded the bill as reporting 5 to 3.
Votes at a glance: House Bill 1664 — motion to report as amended; vote recorded 5 yes, 3 no; outcome: approved and reported to full committee.
