CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1083
Chapter
218, Laws of 1998
55th
Legislature
1998
Regular Session
USE OF DEPARTMENT OF
LICENSING RECORDS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/11/98
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Passed by the House March 9, 1998
Yeas 95 Nays 1
 CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 4, 1998
Yeas 43 Nays 0
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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 1083 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate
on the dates hereon set forth.
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BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved March 30, 1998 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March 30, 1998 - 2:57 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1083
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/13/97.
Authorizing use of department of licensing records in
criminal prosecutions.
AN
ACT Relating to use of department of licensing records in criminal
prosecutions; and amending RCW 46.52.120.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
46.52.120 and 1993 c 501 s 12 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
The director shall keep a case record on every motor vehicle driver licensed
under the laws of this state, together with information on each driver, showing
all the convictions and findings of traffic infractions certified by the
courts, together with an index cross-reference record of each accident reported
relating to such individual with a brief statement of the cause of the
accident. The chief of the Washington state patrol shall furnish the index
cross-reference record to the director, with reference to each driver involved
in the reported accidents.
(2)
The records shall be for the confidential use of the director, the chief of the
Washington state patrol, the director of the Washington traffic safety
commission, and for such police officers or other cognizant public officials as
may be designated by law. Such case records shall not be ((offered as))
admitted into evidence in any court, except where relevant to
the prosecution or defense of a criminal charge, or in case appeal is taken
from the order of the director, suspending, revoking, canceling, or refusing a
vehicle driver's license.
(3)
The director shall tabulate and analyze vehicle driver's case records and
suspend, revoke, cancel, or refuse a vehicle driver's license to a person when
it is deemed from facts contained in the case record of such person that it is
for the best interest of public safety that such person be denied the privilege
of operating a motor vehicle. Whenever the director orders the vehicle
driver's license of any such person suspended, revoked, or canceled, or refuses
the issuance of a vehicle driver's license, such suspension, revocation,
cancellation, or refusal is final and effective unless appeal from the decision
of the director is taken as provided by law.
Passed the House March 9, 1998.
Passed the Senate March 4, 1998.
Approved by the Governor
March 30, 1998.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 30, 1998.