HB 2556

                                                  PRINTER'S NO.     3466
                 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                     HOUSE BILL
                     No. 2556
                                            Session of
                                              2026
INTRODUCED BY CURRY, MAYES, MAZZOCCO, KUZMA, SANCHEZ, WAXMAN,
   RIVERA AND GUZMAN, MAY 29, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 29, 2026
                                 AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2    Statutes, in general provisions relating to traffic-control
3    devices, providing for automated road safety monitoring
4    systems.
5    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7    Section 1.     Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 3118.    Automated road safety monitoring systems.
10    (a)    Authorization.--
11(1)   A municipality, after passage of an ordinance, is
12    authorized to use an automated road safety monitoring system
13    approved by the department to prosecute enforceable
14    violations in a school zone.
15(2)   A municipality that uses an automated road safety
16    monitoring system under paragraph (1) may enter into a
17    contract with an entity, including the manufacturer or vendor
18    of automated road safety monitoring systems or other person
19    to implement, administer, operate or otherwise conduct the
1    issuance, processing and the collection of citations and
2    fines.
3    (b)   Owner liability.--Except as provided under subsection
4 (e), the registered owner of the motor vehicle shall be liable
5 for the penalty imposed under this section.
6    (c)   Notification of violation and penalty.--
7(1)   A fine under this section shall be $40.
8(2)   For the first 30 days after an automated road safety
9    monitoring system becomes operational in a municipality, the
10    municipality may send a written warning to the registered
11    owner of a motor vehicle for the purposes of education in
12    lieu of enforcement through a fine.
13(3)   An enforceable violation issued by a municipality
14    may not be:
15(i)    Made part of the operating record of the
16individual upon whom the liability is imposed.
17(ii)    A conviction of a moving violation under
18Subchapter B of Chapter 33 (relating to right-of-way) and
19Subchapter C of Chapter 35 (relating to rights and duties
20of pedestrians).
21(4)   The following apply to the notification of an
22    enforceable violation:
23(i)    Notification from a municipality that authorizes
24the use of an automated road safety monitoring system
25shall include a notice of an enforceable violation to the
26registered owner of a motor vehicle that is identified in
27photographs or videos produced by an automated road
28safety monitoring system as evidence of an enforceable
29violation.
30(ii)    A rebuttable presumption exists that the
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1      registered owner of a motor vehicle was the driver of the
2      motor vehicle when the citation for an enforceable
3      violation was issued and notice delivered as provided in
4      this section.
5(iii)    The notice of violation required under
6      subparagraph (i) shall include:
7(A)   A copy of the photographs or video produced
8by the automated road safety monitoring system and
9any other data showing the motor vehicle in the
10process of an enforceable violation.
11(B)   The registration number and state of
12issuance of the motor vehicle.
13(C)   The name and address of the registered owner
14of the motor vehicle.
15(D)   The date, time and location of the alleged
16enforceable violation.
17(E)   The specific enforceable violation charged.
18(F)   Instructions for payment of the fine
19imposed.
20(G)   A signed statement by a police officer or
21trained technician employed by the municipality that,
22based on the inspection of the recorded image, the
23motor vehicle was being operated during the
24commission of an enforceable violation.
25(H)   Instructions on how to appeal the citation
26and to obtain a hearing.
27(I)   An affidavit form approved by the police
28officer or trained technician employed by the
29municipality for the purposes of making an appeal.
30(iv)    In the case of an enforceable violation
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1      involving a motor vehicle registered in this
2      Commonwealth, the notice shall be mailed within 30 days
3      of the enforceable violation to the address of the
4      registered owner of the motor vehicle.
5(v)    If a motor vehicle is registered under the laws
6      of another state or country, the notice shall be mailed
7      within 45 days after obtaining the name and address of
8      the registered owner of the motor vehicle. If the address
9      is unavailable, it shall be sufficient to mail the notice
10      to the official in the state or country that has charge
11      of the registration of the motor vehicle.
12(vi)    If the registered owner of a motor vehicle
13      involved in a violation is engaged in the business of
14      leasing or renting motor vehicles, the registered owner
15      remains liable for payment of any fine imposed under this
16      section even if the registered owner was not driving the
17      motor vehicle, but may obtain payment from the lessor or
18      renter of the motor vehicle driving the motor vehicle at
19      the time the enforceable violation occurred and forward
20      the payment to the state or municipality imposing the
21      civil penalty.
22(vii)    The notice shall be sent by first class mail.
23      A manual or automatic record of mailing processed by or
24      on behalf of the municipal agent in the ordinary course
25      of business shall be prima facie evidence and shall be
26      admitted as evidence in any judicial or administrative
27      proceeding as to the facts.
28(viii)    A registered owner of a motor vehicle
29      involved in a violation may appeal the violation as to
30      matters of law and fact to the court of common pleas in
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1the county where the alleged violation occurred. The
2appeal shall be made not later than 30 days after the
3date on which the notice of violation was mailed. The
4registered owner of the motor vehicle may assert in an
5appeal that a notice served by first class mail or other
6mail delivery service was not actually delivered. The
7appeal shall be a de novo hearing.
8    (d)   Certificate as evidence.--A certificate, or a facsimile
9 of a certificate, based upon inspection of recorded images
10 produced by an automated road safety monitoring system and sworn
11 to or affirmed by a police officer or trained technician
12 employed by the municipality shall be prima facie evidence of
13 the facts contained in it. The municipality must include a
14 written statement that the automated road safety monitoring
15 system was operating correctly at the time of the alleged
16 violation. A recorded image evidencing an enforceable violation
17 shall be admissible in any judicial or administrative proceeding
18 to adjudicate the liability for the violation.
19    (e)   Exemptions.--A registered owner of a motor vehicle shall
20 not be liable for a violation under this section if the
21 enforceable violation was:
22(1)   necessary to allow the passage of an emergency
23    vehicle;
24(2)   incurred while participating in a funeral
25    procession;
26(3)   incurred during a period of time in which the motor
27    vehicle was reported to the police department of any state,
28    city or town as having been stolen and had not been recovered
29    before the time the enforceable violation occurred; or
30(4)   necessary to comply with any other law or regulation
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1  governing the operation of a motor vehicle.
2  (f)   Signage and community notice.--
3(1)   A municipality that authorizes the use of an
4  automated road safety monitoring system shall install at each
5  location of an automated road safety monitoring system an
6  unobstructed sign notifying the public that an automated road
7  safety monitoring system is in use.
8(2)   A municipality that authorizes the use of an
9  automated road safety monitoring system shall make a public
10  announcement and conduct a public awareness campaign of its
11  use of automated road safety monitoring systems beginning not
12  less than 30 days before the first automated road safety
13  monitoring system is put into use.
14(3)   A municipality may install but not activate
15  automated road safety monitoring systems during the 30-day
16  time period under paragraph (2).
17  (g)   Reporting.--
18(1)   Annually, not later than December 1, a municipality
19  that authorizes the use of an automated road safety
20  monitoring system shall transmit a report to the department
21  that details each automated road safety monitoring system
22  located in the municipality. The report shall include:
23(i)    A list of the locations of each automated road
24safety monitoring system in the municipality.
25(ii)    An analysis of the nexus between public safety
26and each location's automated road safety monitoring
27system.
28(iii)   The number of fines and warnings issued for
29enforceable violations under subsection (c).
30(iv)    The total amount of fines collected during the
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1year.
2(v)    Crash data, to the extent available, at each
3separate location of an automated road safety monitoring
4system.
5(vi)    The total number of pedestrians and other road
6users present in the photographs or other recorded
7evidence for all camera-enforceable violations for which
8fines and warnings were issued during the one-year
9period.
10(2)   The department shall post all reports received on
11    the department's publicly accessible Internet website.
12    (h)   Compensation to manufacturer or vendor.--Compensation
13 paid to a manufacturer or vendor of an automated road safety
14 monitoring system shall be based on the value of the equipment
15 and services provided or rendered in support of the automated
16 road safety monitoring system and may not be based on the number
17 of enforceable violations issued or a portion or percentage of
18 the fine generated by the citations.
19    (i)   Photographs taken.--
20(1)   Photographs and other recorded evidence taken by an
21    automated road safety monitoring system shall:
22(i)    Be destroyed not more than 48 hours after the
23final disposition of an enforceable violation.
24(ii)    Not be discoverable in any judicial or
25administrative proceeding, other than a proceeding held
26pursuant to this section, without a court order. A
27photograph or other recorded evidence taken pursuant to
28this section shall not be admissible in any judicial or
29administrative proceeding, other than in a proceeding to
30adjudicate liability for a violation under this section,
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1      without a court order.
2(iii)    Only record enforceable violations and may not
3      be used for any other surveillance purposes. The
4      restrictions under this subparagraph may not preclude a
5      court of competent jurisdiction from issuing an order
6      directing that the information be provided to law
7      enforcement officials if the information is reasonably
8      described and is requested solely in connection with a
9      criminal law enforcement action.
10(iv)    Not be utilized to take a frontal view
11      photograph of a motor vehicle committing an enforceable
12      violation. A frontal view photograph of a motor vehicle
13      committing an enforceable violation taken by an automated
14      road safety monitoring system shall not be discoverable
15      or admissible in any judicial or administrative
16      proceeding and shall not be used as the basis for an
17      enforceable violation under this section. To the extent
18      practicable, additional efforts shall be made to ensure
19      that photographs produced by an automated road safety
20      monitoring system do not identify the motor vehicle
21      operator, the passengers or the contents of the motor
22      vehicle. A notice of violation issued may not be
23      dismissed solely because a photograph or photographs
24      allowed for the identification of the motor vehicle
25      operator, the passengers or the contents of the motor
26      vehicle, if the municipality has made a reasonable effort
27      to comply with this subparagraph.
28(v)    Blur any facial image of a pedestrian or other
29      road user captured by the automated road safety
30      monitoring system prior to uploading or otherwise sending
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1or transmitting the photograph or other recorded evidence
2to a city, county or municipality or a municipal agent.
3(2)   A municipality or a manufacturer or vendor of an
4    automated road safety monitoring system may not use,
5    disclose, sell or permit access to data collected by an
6    automated road safety monitoring system, except as necessary
7    to process enforceable violations in accordance with this
8    section.
9(3)   Photographs and other personal identifying
10    information collected by a municipality under this section
11    shall not be a public record.
12    (j)   Use of revenue.--A municipality that authorizes the use
13 of automated road safety monitoring systems under this section
14 shall use the revenue generated to pay for administration costs
15 associated with this section and fund road safety projects with
16 the highest potential to reduce vulnerable road user injuries
17 and fatalities, including improvements to access and safety for
18 road users with mobility, sight or other disabilities.
19    (k)   Rules and regulations.--The department shall issue rules
20 and promulgate regulations necessary to implement this section.
21    (l)   Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
22 construed to prohibit a law enforcement officer from issuing a
23 notice of traffic violation to a person in control of a motor
24 vehicle at the time a violation occurs.
25    (m)   Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
26 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
27 subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
28    "Automated road safety monitoring system."    An automated
29 motor vehicle sensor device that produces digital photographs or
30 video of a motor vehicle that commits a violation at the
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1 location where the automated motor vehicle sensor device is
2 located.
3    "Enforceable violations."    Any of the following violations of
4 traffic law or regulation:
5(1)   Failure to stop for a stop sign under section 3323
6    (relating to stop signs and yield signs).
7(2)   Failure to yield to pedestrian in a crosswalk under
8    section 3542 (relating to right-of-way of pedestrians in
9    crosswalks).
10    "Municipal agent."   The entity or person contracted by a
11 city, county or municipality to implement, administer or
12 otherwise conduct the issuance, processing and collection of
13 citations and fines of enforceable violations under this
14 section.
15    Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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