CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1989
Chapter 111, Laws of 2024
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
GRAFFITI ABATEMENT AND REDUCTION PILOT PROGRAM
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the House February 10, 2024
  Yeas 96  Nays 1
LAURIE JINKINS

Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate February 28, 2024
  Yeas 38  Nays 11
DENNY HECK

President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1989 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
BERNARD DEAN

Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved March 15, 2024 9:42 AM
FILED
March 15, 2024
JAY INSLEE

Governor of the State of Washington
Secretary of State
State of Washington

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1989

Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
ByHouse Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Barkis, Low, Jacobsen, Graham, Sandlin, Bergquist, Robertson, and Hutchins)
READ FIRST TIME 02/05/24.
AN ACT Relating to a graffiti abatement and reduction program; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. (1) Subject to funds appropriated for this purpose, the department of transportation must complete a graffiti abatement and reduction pilot program that includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Field testing spray drone technology for the purpose of more efficiently painting over existing graffiti;
(b) Investigate and test improvements to systems capable of identifying persons who damage property with graffiti;
(c) The department is directed to test these systems and additional graffiti prevention techniques prioritizing the Interstate 5 Puget Sound region from Tacoma to Seattle and the north Spokane corridor;
(d) The department is directed to report to the appropriate committees of the legislature on the graffiti abatement and reduction pilot program, including on the use of funding, the results of actions used to identify people who damage property with graffiti, as well as on the field testing of spray drone technology for painting over graffiti. The report is due by December 1, 2024.
(2) This section expires July 1, 2025.
Passed by the House February 10, 2024.
Passed by the Senate February 28, 2024.
Approved by the Governor March 15, 2024.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 15, 2024.
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