DES MOINES — Racing to get their legislation to the governor’s desk, an Iowa Senate subcommittee Thursday joined colleagues in the House to advance bans on traffic cameras.

The three-member Senate Judiciary subcommittee signed off on Senate Study Bill 3025 after hearing from law enforcement and cities that supported the continued use of the speed and red light cameras as tools for traffic law enforcement, as well as from civil liberties advocates who argued the use of the cameras denies Iowans due process rights.

The bill would void all local ordinances authorizing the use of traffic cameras as of July 1 and order their removal in eight cities and one county where they are used.

There’s a third horse in the race to get a bill to the floor, Senate File 220 that would regulate rather than ban the cameras. The bill, which died in the House last year, was given another chance Thursday when two members of a three-person House Transportation subcommittee signed off on it.

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