CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1211

Chapter 169, Laws of 1998

55th Legislature

1998 Regular Session

MAKING ACCIDENT REPORTS AVAILABLE TO THE TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION

EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/11/98

Passed by the House January 16, 1998 Yeas 94 Nays 0

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate March 4, 1998

Yeas 45 Nays 0

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 1211 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

Approved March 27, 1998

FILED

March 27, 1998 - 3:11 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1211

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Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives DeBolt, Fisher, K. Schmidt, Blalock, Johnson, Mielke, O'Brien and Costa; by request of Washington Traffic Safety Commission)

Read first time 02/10/97.

AN ACT Relating to making accident reports available to the traffic safety commission; and amending RCW 46.52.060.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 46.52.060 and 1979 c 158 s 161 are each amended to read as follows:

It shall be the duty of the chief of the Washington state patrol to file, tabulate, and analyze all accident reports and to publish annually, immediately following the close of each fiscal year, and monthly during the course of the year, statistical information based thereon showing the number of accidents, the location, the frequency and circumstances thereof and other statistical information which may prove of assistance in determining the cause of vehicular accidents.

Such accident reports and analysis or reports thereof shall be available to the director of licensing, the department of transportation, the utilities and transportation commission, the traffic safety commission, and other public entities authorized by the chief of the Washington state patrol, or their duly authorized representatives, for further tabulation and analysis for pertinent data relating to the regulation of highway traffic, highway construction, vehicle operators and all other purposes, and to publish information so derived as may be deemed of publication value.