Repeal Amendment Blocked in House

As Maryland State lawmakers were busy de-clawing proposed speed camera reform legislation, bills which would have repealed Maryland's speed camera law had been submitted to both the House and Senate were blocked by the Judicial Proceedings and Environmental Matters committees and were not permitted to come to a vote on the floor.  Not to be deterred so easily, Delegate Michael Smigiel ((R, Kent, Queen Anne's, Cecil, and Caroline Counties) brought the issue to a vote in the House by proposing an amendment to the house version of a "speed camera reform bill".  Delegate Smigiel's amendment would have changed the bill to repeal the state law which authorizes speed cameras.

Of course, the House voted the amendment down.   

The House reform bill replaced another reform bill which had passed the Senate with only a few days left in the annual session and added provisions which would have "grandfathered in" existing bounty system contracts.  Despite much bluster brought about by discoveries of extensive problems in the speed camera programs of Baltimore City and the SHA, the legislature ended without passing any legislation pertaining to speed cameras whatsoever.

The House vote on the unsuccessful speed camera repeal amendment was as follows:

House Delegates Voting AGAINST Speed Camera Repeal Amendment

	Speaker Busch	DeBoy	Holmes	Miller, A.	Stein
	Anderson	Dumais	Howard	Mitchell	Stukes
	Arora	Feldman	Hubbard	Mizeur	Summers
	Barkley	Frick	Hucker	Morhaim	Swain
	Barnes	Frush	Ivey	Murphy	Tarrant
	Barve	Gaines	Jameson	Nathan-Pulliam	Turner, F.
	Beidle	Gilchrist	Kaiser	Niemann	Turner, V.
	Bobo	Glenn	Kelly, A.	Pena-Melnyk	Valderrama
	Branch	Griffith	Kramer	Pendergrass	Valentino-Smith
	Braveboy	Gutierrez	Lafferty	Proctor	Vallario
	Cane	Guzzone	Lee	Reznik	Vaughn
	Carr	Hammen	Love	Robinson, B.	Waldstreicher
	Clippinger	Harper	Luedtke	Robinson, S.	Washington, A.
	Conaway	Haynes	Malone	Rosenberg	Washington, M.
	Conway	Healey	McHale	Rudolph	Wilson
	Cullison	Hixson	McIntosh	Simmons	Zucker

House Delegates Voting FOR Speed Camera Repeal Amendment

	Afzali	Fisher	James	Miller, W.	Schuh
	Aumann	Frank	Kach	Minnick	Schulz
	Bates	George	Kelly, K.	Myers	Smigiel
	Beitzel	Glass	Kipke	Norman	Sophocleus
	Boteler	Haddaway-Riccio	Krebs	O'Donnell	Stifler
	Cluster	Hershey	McComas	Oaks	Stocksdale
	Costa	Hogan	McConkey	Olszewski	Szeliga
	Dwyer	Hough	McDermott	Otto	Vitale
	Eckardt	Impallaria	McDonough	Parrott	Walker
	Elliott	Jacobs	McMillan	Ready	Wood

Not Voting/Absent:

	Bohanan	Cardin	Jones	Serafini	Weir
	Burns	Carter

Bromwell

Clagett

Donoghue