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Senate adopts amendment and passes photo‑radar bill limiting use to demonstrated public‑safety needs
Summary
On third reading the Senate adopted an amendment negotiated with public safety officials to limit local photo‑radar use to locations with documented safety needs, then passed substitute Senate Bill 59 unanimously in recorded vote.
On third reading Senators considered substitute Senate Bill 59, a measure authorizing law-enforcement use of photo-enforcement equipment under limited conditions. A floor amendment negotiated this morning with Doug Boudreiro, director of the Department of Public Safety, and local police chiefs narrowed authority so photo enforcement could be used only in areas where police had demonstrated a public‑safety need.
A senator on the floor described the amendment as preserving local discretion while constraining deployment to safety-justified locations. The chamber adopted the amendment without recorded dissent, called the question and recorded final passage: substitute Senate Bill 59 passed with 24 ayes, no nays and 5 absent.
What happens next: The bill will be transmitted to the House for further action as recorded by the Senate President.
Representative details and attribution in this account follow the floor record; the amendment sponsor cited Department of Public Safety discussions and local police input as the basis for the limiting language.
