FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 6248

C 264 L 02

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Funding bicycle and pedestrian safety.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Jacobsen, Kohl‑Welles, Kline and Brown).

Senate Committee on Transportation

House Committee on Transportation

Background:  Special motor vehicle license plates are those plates containing a unique design recognizing a particular organization or membership in a particular group.  Some of these special plates are used to raise money for particular causes and others are used to honor residents of the state for particular activities.

The bicycle and pedestrian safety account is used to support bicycle and pedestrian education and safety programs.

Summary:  Cooper Jones Act license plate emblems are created to fund the bicycle and pedestrian safety account.  There is no renewal fee.  The funds from the emblem sales are collected and used by the Department of Licensing (DOL) until all expenses of designing and producing the emblems are recovered.  Thereafter, DOL may collect up to $5 of the fee for administrative and collection expenses, and the remaining proceeds are credited to the bicycle and pedestrian safety account.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate480

House950(House amended)

Senate411(Senate concurred)

Effective:  June 13, 2002