BILL REQ. #:  H-0206.1 

Prefiled 12/18/2006. Read first time 01/08/2007.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to increasing penalties for falsifying hours of service for commercial motor vehicles; adding a new section to chapter 46.32 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 46.32 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) It is a traffic infraction for a commercial motor vehicle driver to violate RCW 46.32.010 and 49 C.F.R. 395.3 by falsifying the logbook of hours of service. For the purposes of this section, "commercial motor vehicle driver" means a person who operates a commercial motor vehicle.
     (2) A person who violates this section is subject to a penalty of seven hundred twenty-five dollars. The penalties in this section shall not be reduced or suspended and shall be distributed as follows: (a) Ninety percent to the motor vehicle account for increased commercial motor vehicle enforcement; and (b) the remainder as provided in chapter 3.62 RCW.