No. HB 521
Filed under Transportation.
Fines for Violations Detected by Traffic Infraction Detectors; Authorizes county or municipality to issue fine for certain violations detected through use of traffic infraction detector; requires fine to be accompanied by certain photograph or image.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDRed light and stop sign camera tickets move from a detailed notice-and-hearing process to a one-sentence fine power for counties and municipalities. A photo of the plate and the signal is still required.
Camera-caught red light and stop sign violations currently carry no license points and cannot affect insurance rates. That protection is repealed outright, with nothing put in its place, so the general four-point rule may now reach these tickets too.
Two enforcement mechanisms disappear at the same time: the DMV can no longer be told to hold a registration renewal over an unpaid camera fine, so nonpayment loses that consequence. Separately, clerks lose the explicit right to dismiss a proven error for free.
A separate cost cap tied to the repealed law also vanishes: the dollar ceiling on extra hearing costs for camera-enforcement cases disappears, and a stand-alone $250 hearing-cost charge is repealed outright.
AIThe bill eliminates section 316.0083, which set up the entire notice-of-violation and hearing-officer system for red light and stop sign cameras, along with a separate section, 321.50.
AIIn place of the repealed system, a county or municipality may simply issue a fine for a red light or stop sign violation caught by camera, without the detailed notice-and-hearing process the old law required. A photo of the plate and signal is still mandatory.
AICurrent law lets the state block a vehicle's registration renewal when the owner hasn't paid a camera fine or entered a payment plan. That entire hold mechanism is repealed, along with the cross-reference to it elsewhere in the registration statute.
AICamera-caught red light and stop sign violations currently can't add points to a license or affect insurance rates. The bill deletes both protections outright, with no substitute language anywhere else in the act.
AICurrent law lets a clerk dismiss a camera citation for free once the driver proves it was issued in error. The bill repeals that whole provision, along with the underlying right to have an erroneous case dismissed at all.
AIThree separate hearing-cost ceilings, for school-bus, school-zone, and red light camera cases, all pointed to a dollar figure set in the now-repealed 316.0083(5)(e); that figure disappears with no replacement. A separate stand-alone $250 hearing-cost charge for red light cases is repealed outright.