Senate Transportation reviews S-150 to protect mobile IDs and automatic traffic-enforcement data

Senate Transportation members discussed S-150, which the bill’s sponsor described as a privacy protection measure for mobile identification, electronic driver’s licenses and data collected through automatic traffic enforcement. The committee did not take a vote or other formal action at the meeting.

“S-150 is really a privacy protection bill. It's looking at, making sure we protect the information in when we issue or if we issue mobile identification or electronic driver's licenses, and protecting any information that we might collect, through automatic traffic enforcement,” said Senator Van Veloske for the record.

Van Veloske told the committee that most of the bill’s provisions also appear in an unspecified House bill and that she added provisions specifically protecting data gathered through automatic traffic enforcement. She said the topic is timely because, in her view, some data are being used by federal entities “to sort of track and trace people.”

Another senator asked whether the companion House bill had advanced. Van Veloske said she did not track every bill’s movement in the other chamber and did not know the current status of the House measure.

Senator Kloske (chairing the panel) told participants the committee expects to receive a draft and to “set ourselves up for next January” to take the matter up again, describing the current discussion as preparatory rather than decisive. No motion, amendment or vote was recorded during the conversation.

Members also acknowledged that this year’s legislative workflow had been compressed late in the session, with several committees and Legislative Council handling a high volume of bills before crossover. Committee members said that the S-150 concept is on the committee’s radar and will be discussed further once a draft is circulated.

The meeting produced no formal direction to adopt language or advance the bill; sponsors and members indicated they would return with draft text for committee review before next year’s session.