No. CS/CS/SB 1080
Filed under Transportation.
Transportation; Requiring the Department of Transportation and any impacted local government to increase the minimum perception-reaction time for steady yellow signals at certain intersections by a specified amount of time; authorizing enforcement of restrictive school zone speed limits through the use of speed detection systems under certain conditions; revising provisions relating to the placement and installation of certain speed detection systems and components thereof; revising a limitation on the use of videos and images recorded as part of a school bus infraction detection system; revising provisions relating to penalties for certain failures to comply, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDEvery signal at an intersection with a red light camera must get 0.4 more seconds of yellow-light reaction time, a statewide mandate on the Department of Transportation and local governments effective July 1, 2026.
School-zone speed cameras may only ticket drivers while a flashing beacon is actually on, and the camera equipment itself can now sit outside the marked zone as long as it stays within the broader maintained area.
Private property owners gain explicit authority to run license-plate-recognition systems on their own land, with new limits on selling or sharing the data and a $2,000 fine for violations.
Unpaid camera citations can now block vehicle registration renewal, and a new $20 million-a-year grant program funds AI-based traffic-signal upgrades statewide.
AIThe Department of Transportation and any local government with a red-light camera must add 0.4 seconds of perception-reaction time to the steady yellow interval at that intersection, lengthening the yellow phase before the light turns red.
AIA county or municipality can only enforce a restrictive school-zone speed limit through a speed detection system while the zone's flashing beacon is actually activated. Zones without a beacon get until January 1, 2028 to install one, and can enforce without beacon proof until then.
AIA property owner may install an automated license-plate-recognition system for use on their own land. They cannot sell the data and can share it only in narrow cases such as parking enforcement or law-enforcement requests, must encrypt and log access, must delete data within 30 days, and face a noncriminal $2,000 fine per violation.
AIThe department may withhold a vehicle's registration or reregistration if its owner received a red-light, school-zone, or school-bus camera citation and never requested a hearing, filed an affidavit, or paid it -- a new trigger alongside the existing suspended-license one.
AIA speed detection system or its components may now be physically placed outside the school zone's marked boundary, as long as it stays within the broader area maintained as a school zone. A citation still requires the violation itself to occur inside the zone.
AIVideo and images from a school-bus stop-arm camera may only be used for traffic enforcement or to determine liability for what that camera captured, and this restriction now overrides any other law that might otherwise permit broader use.
AIWhen a local hearing officer upholds a school-bus camera citation, ordering the petitioner to pay costs on top of the civil penalty becomes discretionary instead of mandatory, so a losing petitioner is not automatically charged more than the assessed fine.
AIThe department must run a competitively procured grant program funding artificial-intelligence and machine-learning traffic-signal upgrades, covering up to 80 percent of first-year pilot costs and 50 percent afterward, backed by a $20 million annual appropriation starting in fiscal year 2026-2027.