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HA1TOHB442 • 2025

This Amendment to House Bill No.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Osienski
Last action: 2026-06-09
Official status: Introduced and Placed With Bill
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Amendment to Traffic Monitoring Rules

This amendment allows towns with police departments to use traffic cameras and keep the money, sets rules for where cameras can go based on safety data, adds a requirement for technician experience in some areas, lets camera revenue pay court appeal costs, and ends the law after 10 years.

What This Bill Does

Allows municipalities that have their own police department to install traffic monitoring systems used for speed detection and keep the money collected from them.
Permits revenue from these systems to be used on a reimbursable basis to pay court costs when people appeal tickets issued by the cameras.
Requires proof of documented safety risks, such as documented speeding or crashes, before labeling a road as high intensity for camera use.
Limits where traffic monitoring can happen in towns without police departments and requires technicians employed there to have law enforcement experience.
Sets an expiration date so this law ends 10 years after it becomes official unless lawmakers extend it.

Who It Names or Affects

Municipalities that operate their own police department
Local courts handling traffic ticket appeals
Drivers who receive citations from electronic monitoring systems

Terms To Know

High intensity roadways: Roads where cameras may be allowed only if there is documented evidence of safety risks like speeding or crashes.
Sunset provision: A rule that makes a law expire 10 years after it becomes official unless lawmakers pass a new act to extend it.

Limits and Unknowns

The text does not state the exact date this amendment will take effect.
It is unclear how much revenue municipalities can collect or what specific safety data counts as documented risk beyond speeding and crashes.

Bill History

2026-06-09 Delaware General Assembly
Introduced and Placed With Bill

Official Summary Text

This Amendment to House Bill No. 442 allows for municipalities with a municipal police department to place and receive revenue from traffic monitoring systems within the municipality. This Amendment allows for revenue from traffic monitoring systems to be used to reimburse costs of the courts to address appeals of citations issued based on the traffic violation monitoring systems.
This Amendment also clarifies that high intensity roadways may only be designated or approved based on documented safety risks.
This Amendment also adds a 10-year sunset provision to House Bill No. 442.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Osienski

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1

HOUSE BILL NO. 442

AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 67 by deleting "

The

" as it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

Through regulation, the

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 69 by deleting "

Speeding

" as it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

Documented speeding

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 70 by deleting "

Crash

" as it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

Documented crash

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 71 by deleting "

Officer

" as it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

Documented officer

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 78 by deleting "

roadways,

" after "

intensity

" and before "

DelDOT

" therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

roadways where a municipal police department does not exist,

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 92 by inserting "

used for speed detection

" after "system" and before "in" therein.

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 123 by inserting "

with law enforcement experience

" after "technician" and before "employed" therein.

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 230 by deleting "

(b)

" as it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

(b)(1)

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 by inserting the following after line 232 and before line 233:

(2) On a reimbursable basis, revenue generated through the use of electronic traffic violation monitoring systems may be used to pay costs of the courts to address appeals of citations issued under this chapter.

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 235 by inserting "

where a municipal police department does not exist

" after "

Security

" and before "

for

" therein.

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 235 by deleting "

districts, and

" as it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

districts;

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 on line 236 by deleting "

facilities,

" as it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "

facilities; and by a local municipality where a municipal police department does exist for high intensity roadways, residence districts, and business districts,

FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 442 by inserting the following after line 260:

“Section 3. This Act expires 10 years after its enactment into law, unless otherwise provided by a subsequent act of the General Assembly.”.

SYNOPSIS

This Amendment to House Bill No. 442 allows for municipalities with a municipal police department to place and receive revenue from traffic monitoring systems within the municipality. This Amendment allows for revenue from traffic monitoring systems to be used to reimburse costs of the courts to address appeals of citations issued based on the traffic violation monitoring systems.

This Amendment also clarifies that high intensity roadways may only be designated or approved based on documented safety risks.

This Amendment also adds a 10-year sunset provision to House Bill No. 442.