A proposed five-year pilot program that calls for using traffic cameras to issue automatic tickets to speeding drivers traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the limit in California is close to approval in the state’s Legislature.
Assembly Bill 645 passed a second Senate hearing in the Judiciary Committee July 11 after clearing the Senate’s Transportation Committee June 27. The State Assembly approved the bill on May 31.
The Legislature began its summer recess July 13 and isn’t expected back until Sept. 1, when the measure will be scheduled for a Senate Floor hearing.
Although red-light cameras are legal in the state, speed cameras are not. The bill, if signed into law, could change that….