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Utah House passes traffic-stop data bill to collect racial-profiling statistics after wide debate
Summary
House Bill 199, creating a statewide traffic-stop inquiry database to evaluate racial profiling and tasking the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice with review, passed the House 58–16 after extended floor debate over cost, categories for race, and potential chilling effects on policing.
After extensive floor debate, the Utah House on a 58–16 vote approved House Bill 199, a measure to collect traffic-stop and inquiry data to evaluate allegations of racial profiling and to provide that information to the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ).
Representative Bordeaux, sponsor of HB 199, defended the bill’s fiscal estimate and policy intent, telling lawmakers the fiscal note was “approximately $8,000” and that the proposal had…
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