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Committee approves bill allowing private businesses to use license-plate readers with limits
Summary
Senate Bill 446 permits private landowners and businesses to use license-plate readers on private property with a 60-day data retention limit, sale prohibition, and requirements that government entities obtain data via subpoena; the committee also made the private users subject to the attorney general's Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Senate Bill 446, presented by Senator Gilmore (District 1), was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee after explanation and brief questions.
Gilmore said the bill allows private landowners, leaseholders and commercial businesses to use license-plate readers on their property, restricts use to monitoring their premises, limits retention of captured plate data to 60 days, and prohibits private sale of the data. He said a governmental entity may compel release of data only with a valid subpoena; the bill also subjects private users to the attorney general's Deceptive Trade Practices Act for misuse.
Senator Johnson asked whether the measure addressed enforcement; Gilmore answered that enforcement would be through the insurance and commerce framework noted in the bill. After no public testimony, Gilmore asked for a favorable vote; the committee moved to "do pass," and the bill passed by voice vote.
No roll-call tally or fiscal note was recorded in the committee transcript.
