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Senate approves $2 million pilot to add shot-counting technology to law-enforcement handguns
Summary
Senate Bill 68 passed the Utah Senate on Feb. 3, 2021. Sponsors said the bill requests $2 million for a pilot that would outfit roughly 8,000 law-enforcement firearms with technology that records shot counts, dates and times; the bill passed on a roll call and will be sent to the House.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 3 passed Senate Bill 68, a measure to create a law-enforcement handgun technology pilot and to request funding for initial deployment.
Senator David Buxton, sponsor, described the bill as a pilot program to require technology in handguns used by law enforcement and said the measure requests $2,000,000 to equip roughly 8,000 firearms in police and sheriff departments. "It requests $2,000,000, which will afford about 8,000 guns into the police departments only and the sheriff's departments... It counts the number of shots, dates, and times them," Buxton said on the floor.
Senator Buxton offered the floor explanation after earlier committee work; with no additional questions the Senate proceeded to a roll-call vote and recorded the bill's passage. The floor record indicates unanimous or near-unanimous approval and that the bill will be sent to the House for consideration.
The bill as presented on the floor focuses on the pilot's technological function (recording shot counts and timestamps) and the requested appropriation for a limited deployment to law-enforcement departments. Floor remarks did not include a detailed implementation plan, procurement timeline or an agency assignment for statewide rollout; those details would normally be worked out in committee or implementing rulemaking and appropriation language.
