WA SB6131

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

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

Designates all fatality review committee meetings and deliberations as confidential, exempt from open public meetings requirements, and inadmissible 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 at council meetings

Adds new exemptions to public records law for information and documents related to traffic fatality reviews conducted by the commission