Operators of toll facilities: interoperability programs: vehicle information.

Assembly Member Petrie-Norris's transportation legislation modifies California's toll facility data sharing protocols to align with national interoperability standards while establishing new privacy safeguards. The measure updates the Streets and Highways Code to specify permissible data categories that toll facility operators may exchange when participating in interstate interoperability programs.

Under the revised framework, toll facilities on federal-aid highways may share only six types of vehicle-related information: license plate data, transponder data, transaction records, acknowledgment data, correction data, and reconciliation data. The bill explicitly prohibits the transmission of biometric information as part of interstate interoperability efforts. Transportation agencies participating in these programs must publish the required data specifications on their websites, as established by the National Interoperability Interface Control Document.

The legislation maintains existing requirements for automatic vehicle identification systems, including provisions that drivers need not reduce speed for detection and vehicle owners should not need multiple devices for different facilities. It preserves the Department of Transportation's role in developing system specifications in partnership with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District and other entities planning toll facilities, while requiring that specifications allow facility operators to select from multiple manufacturers and vendors.