FINAL BILL REPORT

                      HB 1024

                                 C 243 L 91

                            Synopsis As Enacted

Brief Description:  Excluding certain driving record information pertaining to law enforcement officers and fire fighters from abstracts of driving records.

By Representatives Zellinsky, Broback, Dellwo, Haugen, Kremen, Day, Wineberry, Mielke, Orr, Inslee, Ebersole, R. Meyers, Paris, Schmidt, May, Edmondson, Van Luven, Sheldon, Pruitt, Winsley, Forner and Anderson.

House Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance

Senate Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance

Background:  The law permits insurance companies to obtain an abstract of the driving record of a person applying for insurance.  However, abstracts may not contain information concerning an accident involving a law enforcement officer or fire fighter when the accident occurred during an emergency situation while the officer or fire fighter was driving an official vehicle in the course of duty, and when the officer's or fire fighter's superior has determined that the actions were reasonable under the circumstances.

Summary:  Except for accidents resulting in misdemeanor or felony convictions, driving record abstracts may not contain information concerning an accident involving a law enforcement officer or fire fighter while such person was driving an official vehicle in the performance of duty. The authority of the officer's or fire fighter's superior to determine the reasonableness of the action is repealed, as is the requirement that the vehicle be driven during an emergency situation.

Votes on Final Passage:

House 97    0

Senate   48    0     (Senate amended)

House 96    0     (House concurred)

Effective:     July 28, 1991