BILL · 2021–22 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5673
SB 5673: Bridge jumping signs
Installing signs on or near bridges to provide information to deter jumping.
Summary
- Requires the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission to install a sign in memory of Zachary Lee Rager.
- Authorizes counties, cities, towns, and state agencies to erect informational signs near or attached to bridges providing location-specific information about the hazards of jumping.
- Requires port districts, railroad corporations, and certain state agencies to consider whether to require the installation of informational signs as part of a contract for the construction or replacement of a bridge.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 10, 2022
- Out of committeeJan 28, 2022
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- John Braun (R-20)
- Introduced
- January 10, 2022 in the Senate
- Last action
- February 17, 2022
- Companion bill
- HB 1595
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 5673, SSB 5673
AN ACT Relating to installing signs on or near bridges to provide information to deter jumping;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: John Braun (R-20)
8 co-sponsors (4 Democrats, 4 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 5673)
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 5673)
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- TRAN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5673)
- TRAN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
- First reading, referred to Transportation.
- Prefiled for introduction.
SB 5673 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5673 (2025–26) Manufacturing/sales tax
- SB 5673 (2023–24) Forest practices board
- SB 5673 (2019–20) Parking enforcement
- SB 5673 (2017–18) OSPI & state board of ed.
- SB 5673 (2015–16) Synthetic cannabinoids
- SB 5673 (2013–14) Community & tech colleges
- SB 5673 (2011–12) Lease inc. to service contr.
- SB 5673 (2009–10) Certificates of need