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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 293

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Heavey, Padden, Armstrong and P. King; by request of Department of Licensing

Read first time 1/23/87 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to motor vehicles; and amending RCW 46.20.300.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 46.20.300, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 150, chapter 158, Laws of 1979 and RCW 46.20.300 are each amended to read as follows:

          The director of licensing may suspend, revoke, or cancel the vehicle driver's license of any resident of this state upon receiving notice of the conviction of such person in another state or province of an offense therein which, if committed in this state, would be ground for the suspension or revocation of the vehicle driver's license.  The director may further, upon receiving a record of the conviction in this state of a nonresident driver of a motor vehicle of any offense under the motor vehicle laws of this state, forward a certified copy of such record to the motor vehicle administrator in the state of which the person so convicted is a resident; such record to consist of a copy of the judgment and sentence in the case.