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Utah Senate debates third substitute of bill to authorize license-plate electronic tolling on new-capacity roads
Summary
Senators debated the third substitute of Senate Bill 71, which would allow UDOT to collect electronic tolls using license-plate identification on state roads with newly added capacity; sponsors said the measure targets congestion corridors such as Little Cottonwood Canyon, while colleagues pressed for privacy, reciprocity and equity safeguards. The transcript records a roll-call to read the bill for a third time but does not include a final tally.
Senators spent a substantial portion of the floor session discussing the third substitute of Senate Bill 71, a measure that authorizes the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) to use license-plate identification for electronic toll collection on state roads that receive new capacity.
Sponsor Senator Niederhauser said the bill "allows electronic tolling, through identification of license plate," and emphasized the measure does not authorize tolling of existing road capacity without further legislative or commission approval. "It does not allow towing that hasn't been allowed before…they can only use it to collect a toll, and then they have to get rid of the information," he said during his presentation.
The sponsor framed the bill as a…
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