BILL REQ. #: H-1928.1

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1333
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State of Washington

62nd Legislature

2011 Regular Session

By House General Government Appropriations & Oversight (originally sponsored by Representatives Kirby, Van De Wege, Hurst, Pearson, Appleton, Ross, Ladenburg, Kagi, Upthegrove, Blake, Green, Kenney, and Condotta)

READ FIRST TIME 02/23/11.

AN ACT Relating to motorcycle profiling; and adding a new section to chapter 43.101 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 43.101 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The criminal justice training commission and the Washington state patrol shall ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training and offered to in-service law enforcement officers in conjunction with existing training regarding profiling.
     (2) State and local law enforcement agencies shall add a statement condemning motorcycle profiling to existing policies regarding profiling.
     (3) For the purposes of this section, "motorcycle profiling" means using solely the fact that a person is riding a motorcycle or is wearing certain motorcycle-related paraphernalia while riding a motorcycle as a pretext in deciding whether or not to stop, detain, question, search, or arrest a person operating a motorcycle.

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