FINAL BILL REPORT

                   SB 5132

                           C 23 L 97

                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Simplifying designation of school bus stops as drug‑free zones.

Sponsors:  Senators Zarelli, Schow, Winsley and Oke.

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

House Committee on Education

Background:  Under current law, a number of locations are declared to be drug free zones, within which the penalties for drug related offenses are doubled.  The areas covered are  schools, school bus route stops designated as such on maps submitted by school districts to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, school buses, public parks, transit vehicles, transit vehicle shelters and civic centers designated as drug free zones by local governing authorities.

Summary:  The definition of school bus route stop is modified to mean a school bus stop as designated by a school district, without the necessity of submitting maps to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 47 0

House     97 0

Effective:  July 27, 1997