House Panel Gives Green Light to Bill to Eliminate DC Traffic Cameras

DC Traffic Camera Ban Passes a Committee Vote in the House

Scott Perry really has a bee in his bonnet about traffic cameras. Yesterday, his dream of fully banning them in DC got closer to reality. The House Oversight Committee advanced a bill authored by Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, which would eliminate the city’s 546 traffic cameras. It will also require DC to legalize right turns

House panel gives green light to bill to eliminate DC traffic cameras

For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. The House Oversight Committee advanced a GOP bill on Wednesday that would get rid of D.C. traffic camera enforcement that annually brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the District. The committee approved the legislation on a 21-19 party line vote. The legislation is sponsored by Rep. Scott Perry, a Republ…

House committee advances bill to ban DC traffic cams

D.C. has 536 automated traffic cameras keeping watch over the roads, and some lawmakers on Capitol Hill want all of them turned off for good. The House Oversight Committee voted 21-19 along party lines Wednesday to ban automated traffic cameras in D.C. The bill now goes to the full House. “The residents and commuters of Washington are both sick and tired of being fleeced for hundreds of dollars of petty automated traffic fines — all in the name …

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The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is slated to vote this afternoon on a bill that would disallow the District from using automated traffic enforcement and banning right turns on red.

House advances bill to eliminate DC traffic cameras

The bill now needs to be scheduled for a House vote before heading to the Senate.