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WA HB2192

Bill

Status

Enrolled

3/10/2026

Primary Sponsor

Sam Low

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes the Washington Traffic Safety Commission as a public health authority with expanded power to collect health care information from hospitals, emergency medical services, medical examiners, and coroners to analyze traffic fatality causes and trends

  • Authorizes the commission to convene fatality review committees to examine motor vehicle collision deaths, with access to crash reports, toxicology reports, driver licensing records, medical records, and law enforcement documentation

  • Exempts traffic fatality review information and documents from public disclosure, makes fatality review committee meetings confidential and not subject to open meetings requirements, and protects documents from use in civil or administrative proceedings

  • Requires the commission to include Cooper Jones Active Transportation Safety Council members when reviewing pedestrian, bicyclist, or other active transportation user deaths, and to present findings to the council

  • Grants civil immunity to commission representatives and fatality review committee members acting in good faith, and clarifies the bill does not create a private right of action

Legislative Description

Updating the role of the Washington traffic safety commission in identifying the risk factors that lead to roadway fatalities.

Last Action

Delivered to Governor.

3/10/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules3/2/2026
Transportation2/19/2026
Rules2/9/2026
Transportation1/12/2026

Full Bill Text

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