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BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

HB 1282: Driver's license suspensions

Concerning driver's license suspensions and revocations.

Summary

  • Eliminates driver's license suspensions for failure to respond to notice of a traffic infraction for a moving violation, failure to appear at a requested hearing for a moving violation, violation of a written promise to appear in court for a moving violation, and failure to comply with the terms of a notice of traffic infraction or citation for a moving violation (noncriminal only).
  • Reduces the offense of Driving While Driver's License Suspended (DWLS) in the third degree, a misdemeanor, to DWLS in the fourth degree, a noncriminal traffic infraction, when the person driving without a license received a suspension for certain specified grounds.
  • Establishes a base penalty for DWLS in the fourth degree of $250 ($550 with fees and assessments included), which must be reduced to $50 ($140 total) when proof is provided to a court that the driver's license was reinstated after the citation was issued.
  • Authorizes the Department of Licensing (DOL) to reinstate all driver's licenses suspended for reasons that are no longer grounds for suspension.
  • Requires the DOL to notify anyone whose driver's license was suspended who may qualify for reinstatement, and to create an online application process for people to use to determine whether they are eligible for reinstatement, within 30 days of the effective date of the legislation.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1282), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
  1. IntroducedJan 18, 2019
  2. Out of committeeMar 1, 2019
  3. Passed Housestopped here
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Kristine Reeves (D-30)
Introduced
January 18, 2019 in the House
Last action
January 21, 2020
Companion bill
SB 5328
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to driver's license suspensions and revocations;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Kristine Reeves (D-30)

22 co-sponsors (22 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Javier Valdez D-46Mia Gregerson D-33Mike Pellicciotti D-30Noel Frame D-36Jake Fey D-27June Robinson D-38Lillian Ortiz-Self D-21Monica Jurado Stonier D-49John Lovick D-44Chris Kilduff D-28Eric Pettigrew D-37Marcus Riccelli D-3Sharon Wylie D-49Sherry Appleton D-23Derek Stanford D-1Sharon Tomiko Santos D-37Steve Bergquist D-11Laurie Jinkins D-27Shelley Kloba D-1Mari Leavitt D-28Timm Ormsby D-3Gerry Pollet D-46

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. House Rules "X" file.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Rules 2 Consideration.
  4. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
  5. Referred to Rules 2 Review.
  6. TR - Executive action taken by committee.
  7. Minority; do not pass.
  8. TR - Majority; do pass.
  9. First reading, referred to Transportation.

HB 1282 in other sessions

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