Official Text and Analysis.

Modifies the requirement for the pilot that, beginning January 1, 2020, for first time violations at specific locations for infractions for which camera use is expanded in the bill, a warning of infraction without a fine, rather than a notice of infraction with a fine, must be mailed to the registered owner of a vehicle.

Requires a city that implements a pilot under the bill to include in its report to the Legislature the number of traffic infractions issued as a result of the pilot to owners of vehicles registered outside of the county in which the city is located.

Modifies the expanded authorization for the use of automated traffic safety cameras to detect the specified traffic violations in cities with populations greater than 500,000 as follows: (1) Limits the expanded authorization to a pilot program that is authorized through the end of 2021 and to certain areas and roadways in cities that authorize this pilot program; (2) Expands the violations for which automated traffic safety cameras may be used during this pilot program to include stopping or traveling in restricted lane violations; (3) Mandates that notices of warning without penalty be issued to the registered owner of vehicles that automated traffic safety cameras detect committing infractions as part of the pilot program until January 1, 2020, and that notices of infraction be issued from January 1, 2020, until the end of the pilot program; (4) Applies all rules and regulations governing the use of automated traffic safety cameras to automated traffic safety cameras used for the purposes of this pilot program, except exempts cities from the mandate that an analysis be conducted on the locations of automated traffic safety cameras used for the purposes of the pilot program; (5) Directs one-half of the revenue collected by a city from traffic fines issued under the pilot program in excess of the cost to install, operate, and maintain the automated traffic safety cameras used in the pilot program to the Highway Safety Fund; and (6) Expands the definition of "automated traffic safety camera" for the purposes of the pilot program to include automated traffic safety cameras used to detect the violations for which its use is authorized.

Modifies the pilot to provide that warnings, and not notices of infraction, be issued to the registered owners of vehicles for first violations generated through the use of automated traffic safety cameras under the pilot.

Expands one of the types of locations where automated traffic safety cameras are permitted from intersections of two arterials with traffic control signals with certain specified yellow change intervals to intersections of two or more arterials with traffic control signals with certain specified yellow change intervals.

Redirects the state portion of the proceeds from the fines under the pilot program, until July 1, 2021, to the County Road Administration Board Emergency Loan Account created in SB 5923.

Exempts rental cars and rental car businesses from the pilot program.

Restricts traffic violations detected under the pilot with respect to trucks, having parked in lanes restricted for public transportation or high-occupancy vehicle use, for the purpose of making deliveries between midnight and 5 a.m., to receiving warnings only.