FINAL BILL REPORT

                 EHB 1107

                         C 401 L 93

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Requiring yielding right of way to buses.

By Representatives R. Fisher and Jacobsen.

House Committee on Transportation

Senate Committee on Transportation

Background:  Automobiles are not required to yield the right of way to transit vehicles.

Summary:  The driver of a vehicle must yield the right of way to a transit vehicle traveling in the same direction that has signaled and is attempting to reenter the flow of traffic.

Department of Transportation, city and county maintenance vehicles are permitted to use optical strobe light devices to perform maintenance tests on traffic control lights.

Public transit agencies are permitted to use optical strobe light devices in public transit vehicles to accelerate the cycle of the traffic control light.  Public transit vehicles operating an optical strobe light must yield to emergency vehicles when simultaneously approaching the same traffic signal.  "Public transit vehicles" refers to vehicles used for mass transportation that are owned by a governmental entity and can carry 25 or more persons.

Votes on Final Passage:

House  97 0

Senate 37 5 (Senate amended)

House  97 0 (House concurred)

Effective:  July 25, 1993