CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2518

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 4, 1996   Yeas 94   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 29, 1996   Yeas 46   Nays 1

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2518 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2518

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Skinner, Blanton, Radcliff, Hankins, Delvin, Dickerson, Mitchell, Morris, Silver and Chandler)

Read first time 01/18/96.  Referred to Committee on .

Doubling the fine for speeding in school or playground zones.

    AN ACT Relating to penalties for speed infractions in school or playground zones; amending RCW 46.61.440; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.61.440 and 1975 c 62 s 34 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Subject to RCW 46.61.400(1), and except in those instances where a lower maximum lawful speed is provided by this chapter or otherwise, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to operate the same at a speed in excess of twenty miles per hour when operating any vehicle upon a highway either inside or outside an incorporated city or town when passing any marked school or playground crosswalk when such marked crosswalk is fully posted with standard school speed limit signs or standard playground speed limit signs.  The speed zone at the crosswalk shall extend three hundred feet in either direction from the marked crosswalk.

(2) A person found to have committed any infraction relating to speed restrictions within a school or playground speed zone shall be assessed a monetary penalty equal to twice the penalty assessed under RCW 46.63.110.  This penalty may not be waived, reduced, or suspended.

(3) The school zone safety account is created in the custody of the state treasurer.  Fifty percent of the moneys collected under subsection (2) of this section shall be deposited into the account.  Expenditures from the account may be used only by the Washington traffic safety commission solely to fund projects in local communities to improve school zone safety.  Only the director of the traffic safety commission or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account.  The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but no appropriation is required for expenditures until July 1, 1999, after which date moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.

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