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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
As HB 847 is proposed, it will expire in two years so that makes it a trial or a test run. It starts on January 1, 2009, and it expires on January 1, 2011. It's not cast in concrete and being presented as a law that will be forever. It's a two year trial run. If passed, we give it a go for two years and then the legislature gets to reconsider it. If it does get passed then in two years the Marine Patrol will have that speed limit, enforcement experience for the legislature to consider.
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What are the benchmarks going to be? If statistics show that "speeding" is not a problem now, what will show that the new law was effective? It is not possible for the number of high-speed accidents to go down, since there have been none in recent years.
