Operators of toll facilities: interoperability programs: vehicle information.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text does not provide specific details on enforcement mechanisms beyond fines for certain violations.

Toll Facility Information Sharing

This law updates how toll facility operators share specific vehicle data with out-of-state agencies and requires them to post national interoperability specifications on their websites.

What This Bill Does

• Authorizes toll facility operators on federal-aid highways engaged in an interstate interoperability program to provide license plate, transponder, transaction, acknowledgment, correction, or reconciliation data as required by national interoperability specifications.
• Prohibits toll facility operators from sharing biometric information with out-of-state agencies or hubs.
• Requires transportation agencies participating in interstate interoperability programs to post the types of data they are allowed to share on their websites.

Who It Names or Affects

• Operators of toll facilities on federal-aid highways
• Out-of-state toll agencies involved in interstate interoperability programs

Terms To Know

Interstate Interoperability Program

A program that allows different states' toll systems to work together more effectively.

Biometric Information

Data related to a person's physical characteristics, such as fingerprints or facial recognition data.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the consequences for operators who violate rules about sharing biometric information.
• It is unclear how this law will affect toll facilities that do not participate in interstate interoperability programs.

Official Summary Text

AB 334, as amended, Petrie-Norris.
Operators of toll facilities: interoperability programs: vehicle information.
Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District and all known entities planning to implement a toll facility, to develop and adopt functional specifications and standards for an automatic vehicle identification system in compliance with specified objectives, and generally requires any automatic vehicle identification system purchased or installed after January 1, 1991, to comply with those specifications and standards. Existing law authorizes operators of toll facilities on federal-aid highways engaged in an interoperability program to provide, regarding a vehicle’s use of the toll facility, only the license plate number, transponder identification number, date and time of the transaction, and identity of the agency operating the toll facility.
This bill
would instead authorize
operators of toll facilities
an operator of a toll facility
on federal-aid highways engaged in an interstate interoperability program to provide
to an out-of-state toll agency or interstate interoperability tolling hub
only the information regarding a vehicle’s use of the toll facility that is license plate data, transponder data,
or
transaction data,
acknowledgment data, correction data, or reconciliation data, and that is required to implement interstate interoperability, as established
and that is listed as “required”
by specified national interoperability specifications.
Notwithstanding that provision, the bill would prohibit those operators from providing
biometric information, as defined, as part of implementing interstate interoperability.
If the operator needs to collect other types of information to implement interstate interoperability, the bill would prohibit the operator from selling or otherwise providing that information to any other person or entity, as specified. If the operator transmits those other types of information to an out-of-state toll agency or any interstate interoperability tolling hub, the bill would subject the operator to an action by the affected person for no less than $2,500 per violation, as specified.
The bill would require a transportation agency that participates in interstate interoperability to post those national interoperability specifications data types on their internet website.
The bill would repeal these provisions relating
to an interstate interoperability program.

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