WA People
BILL · 2013–14 SESSION

HB 1408: Digital outdoor ad signs

Providing cities and towns with the local options to permit digital outdoor advertising signs.

Summary

  • Provides cities and towns the option to permit static digital outdoor advertising signs along state highways.
  • Requires owners of outdoor digital advertising signs to coordinate with law enforcement and emergency management authorities to display emergency information.
  • Allows state agencies to contract with owners and vendors of digital outdoor advertising signs to expand the state's missing person computerized network and emergency messaging system. Such contracts must be voluntary and may not include compensation.
  • Requires the Washington State Department of Transportation to adopt rules establishing standards for brightness, size, and change of copy for digital outdoor advertising signs.

From the House Bill Analysis 2013 (HB 1408), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 25, 2013
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Luis Moscoso (D-1)
Introduced
January 25, 2013 in the House
Last action
January 13, 2014
Companion bill
SB 5304
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to providing cities and towns with the local options to permit digital outdoor advertising signs;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Luis Moscoso (D-1)

3 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 2 Republicans)

Dan Kristiansen R-39Chris Reykdal D-22Mark Hargrove R-47

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. First reading, referred to Transportation.

HB 1408 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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