SALEM -- A bill that would allow cities to use red light cameras to ticket speeding drivers is on its way to Gov. Kate Brown's desk after passing the Senate Wednesday.

If signed into law, House Bill 2409 would let cities use red light cameras or speed measuring sensors to issue tickets to drivers traveling at least 11 mph above the speed limit. To use the speeder-nabbing tech, cities would have to post signs saying that traffic laws are enforced with cameras or other technology.

Citations would be reviewed and signed by a police officer and then mailed to the registered owner of a ticketed vehicle, or the driver, within 10 days of the violation. Anyone receiving a ticket would have 30 days to respond.

Portland already has special permission for speed-enforcing cameras along stretches of the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, Southeast 122nd Avenue between Foster Road and Powell Boulevard, and on the outskirts of Southeast Division Street. The city could expand their use if House Bill 2409 is signed into law.

Beaverton would likely be the first city to issue citations under House Bill 2409 and could write an additional 30,000 speeding tickets because of it in 2018, according to legislative analysts. Sherwood, Medford, Bend and Grants Pass are expected to bring the technology online too, according to analysts.

House Bill 2409 passed 18-10, nearly along party lines. Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, voted against the bill and Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, and Sen. Chuck Thomsen, R-Hood River, voted for it.

-- Gordon R. Friedman

503-221-8209; @GordonRFriedman