CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE
BILL 1554
Chapter 206, Laws of 1999
56th Legislature
1999 Regular Session
HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE
VIOLATIONS--TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/25/99
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Passed by the House March 15,
1999
Yeas 87 Nays 10
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the House
of Representatives
 FRANK
CHOPP
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 13,
1999
Yeas 33 Nays 6
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CERTIFICATE
We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy
A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1554 as
passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set
forth.
 DEAN
R. FOSTER
Chief
Clerk
TIMOTHY
A. MARTIN
Chief
Clerk
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BRAD
OWEN
President
of the Senate
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Approved May 7, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes
below.
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FILED
May 7, 1999 - 3:47
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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Z-0169.3 _______________________________________________
HOUSE
BILL 1554
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Passed
Legislature - 1999 Regular Session
State
of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/28/1999. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
Clarifying status of HOV lane violations as traffic
infractions.
AN
ACT Relating to high-occupancy vehicle lane violations; and amending RCW
46.61.165.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
46.61.165 and 1998 c 245 s 90 are each amended to read as follows:
The
state department of transportation and the local authorities are authorized to
reserve all or any portion of any highway under their respective jurisdictions,
including any designated lane or ramp, for the exclusive or preferential use of
public transportation vehicles or private motor vehicles carrying no fewer than
a specified number of passengers when such limitation will increase the
efficient utilization of the highway or will aid in the conservation of energy
resources. ((There is hereby appropriated from the transportation fund‑-state
to the department of transportation, program C for the period ending June 30,
1993, an additional $15 million for the sole purpose of expediting completion
of the HOV core lane system.)) Regulations authorizing such exclusive or
preferential use of a highway facility may be declared to be effective at all
times or at specified times of day or on specified days. Violation of a
restriction of highway usage prescribed by the appropriate authority under this
section is a traffic infraction.
Passed the House March 15, 1999.
Passed the Senate April 13, 1999.
Approved by the Governor May
7, 1999.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State May 7, 1999.