CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6237

                    Chapter 34, Laws of 1996

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

    VEHICLES USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS--APPROVAL

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/6/96

Passed by the Senate February 5, 1996   YEAS 47   NAYS 0             JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House February 26, 1996   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6237 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                             Secretary

Approved March 7, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 7, 1996 - 11:22 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6237

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Prince, Owen, Wood and Prentice)

Read first time 01/26/96.

    AN ACT Relating to vehicles using wireless communications and computer systems; and amending RCW 46.37.480.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.37.480 and 1991 c 95 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle equipped with any television viewer, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast which is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or which is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle.  This subsection does not apply to law enforcement vehicles communicating with mobile computer networks.

    (2) No person shall operate any motor vehicle on a public highway while wearing any headset or earphones connected to any electronic device capable of receiving a radio broadcast or playing a sound recording for the purpose of transmitting a sound to the human auditory senses and which headset or earphones muffle or exclude other sounds.  This subsection does not apply to students and instructors participating in a Washington state motorcycle safety program.

    (3) This section does not apply to authorized emergency vehicles ((or to)), motorcyclists wearing a helmet with built-in headsets or earphones as approved by the Washington state patrol, or motorists using hands-free, wireless communications systems, as approved by the equipment section of the Washington state patrol.

    Passed the Senate February 5, 1996.

    Passed the House February 26, 1996.

Approved by the Governor March 7, 1996.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 7, 1996.