2026 Regular Session - Day 29 - HB 58 | Rep. John Hodgson

I ask the clerk to report the House Committee Substitute 1 to House Bill 58. Clerk, please report. House Committee Substitute 1 to House Bill 58. General from Jefferson. Mr. Speaker, the Committee Substitute adds narrow language to allow retention and sharing of automated license plate reader data by financial service and insurance companies for the purposes of administering their private contracts with vehicle owners with informed consent. Mr. Speaker, I move adoption of the House Committee Substitute. Motion is for the adoption of House Committee Substitute 1. Is there any discussion of the Committee Substitute? Seeing none, those in favor signify by voting aye. Those opposed, nay. House Committee Substitute 1 is adopted. General from Jefferson. Mr. Speaker, I ask the clerk to report House Floor Amendment 1 to House Bill 58. Clerk, please report. House Floor Amendment 1 to House Bill 58. General from Jefferson. Mr. Speaker, this amendment is simply to allow law enforcement agencies to retain and use ALPR data for training purposes provided the dates, times, and license plate numbers are redacted. I move for adoption of House Floor Amendment 1 to House Bill 58. Motion is for the adoption of House Floor Amendment 1. Is there any discussion of the Floor Amendment? Seeing none, those in favor signify by voting aye. Those opposed, nay. House Floor Amendment 1 is adopted. General from Jefferson. Mr. Speaker, automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, use artificial intelligence to convert a photo of a license plate into data that includes the plate number and the registration data about the vehicle and the owner. In addition, networks of ALPRs using AI can string together location information about that license plate at particular locations, and again using AI can even predict future locations using pattern matching. ALPRs provide a powerful real-time crime-fighting tool for carjackings, car theft, kidnapping, missing persons, fleeing felons, property crimes, as well as private and commercial uses like parking and toll collection, controlling access, security, and locating vehicles under private contracts. All great reasons to have them, but ALPR data can also be used for nefarious purposes, either by individuals seeking to harm someone or an out-of-control government doing excessive and unwarranted surveillance on innocent citizens. For these reasons, the bill limits ALPR usage to enumerated legitimate purposes, it limits data retention to 90 days before the destruction of it in most cases, and bans the selling or sharing of the information outside of narrowly defined law enforcement purposes and consensual private contracts. A moved passage of House Bill 58 is amended by House Committee Substitute 1 and Floor Amendment 1.