FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 2842

                                   C 24 L 90

BYRepresentatives Hine, G. Fisher, Brooks, Sprenkle, Zellinsky, Prentice, R. Fisher, Sayan, Ballard, Moyer, Todd, Anderson, Winsley, Heavey, Ferguson, Rasmussen and Wineberry

Permitting more discretion in granting disabled parking permits.

House Committe on Transportation

Senate Committee on Transportation

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Persons with special parking privileges are entitled to park for unlimited periods of time and free of charge in spaces reserved for the disabled, in public zones, and in metered parking areas. The original intent of the law was to aid persons for whom travel was impossible or impractical.  The program is administered by the Department of Licensing.

Special parking privileges are available for individuals with specific mobility impairing disabilities such as the loss of limbs, lung or heart disease, or the need to use a wheelchair or crutches.

SUMMARY:

The disabled parking privilege is extended to persons who suffer from an acute sensitivity to automobile emissions that impairs the ability to walk.  The physician of a person suffering such a sensitivity must document that the impairment is comparable in severity to current qualifying disabilities.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 93   0

      Senate    49     0

EFFECTIVE:June 7, 1990