SF 2056 - Work Zone Safety Pilot Program

• Establishes a work zone safety pilot program from 2024 through end of 2025 construction season requiring speed safety camera systems in at least two trunk highway work zones with speed limits of at least 45 miles per hour, including one in greater Minnesota.

• Requires daily inspection and calibration of camera systems by licensed peace officers, with conspicuous signage notifying drivers and cameras recording only rear license plates and surrounding area necessary to calculate vehicle speed.

• Authorizes issuance of $50 administrative citations by licensed peace officers to vehicle owners or lessees for speeding violations detected by cameras, with warnings-only during the first 30 days at each location and a civil contestation process available before a neutral third party.

• Designates speed safety camera system data as private or nonpublic data that must be destroyed within 24 hours unless a citation is issued or data are active investigative data, and restricts use to speed enforcement and crash investigations in work zones only.

• Requires an independent nonprofit transportation research entity to evaluate program effectiveness by February 1, 2026, and appropriates an unspecified amount from the general fund for fiscal year 2024 for program implementation, public education, and evaluation.