WA Lane Splitting Bill Fails After Passing Senate
SSB 5378 (Lane Splitting) failed to get scheduled for a committee hearing by the cutoff date after passing the full Senate. Although SSB 5378 passed the Senate as a clean and safe bill (unlike last session after unsafe amendments were made), the bill failed to get scheduled for a hearing before the House Transportation Committee and is now effectively dead this session. SSB 5378 would have permitted lane-splitting on state highways with speed restrictions as a 2-year pilot project that would have to be renewed by the legislature to become permanent law.
WA Lane Splitting Bill Fails After Passing Senate
SSB 5378 (Lane Splitting) failed to get scheduled for a committee hearing by the cutoff date after passing the full Senate. Although SSB 5378 passed the Senate as a clean and safe bill (unlike last session after unsafe amendments were made), the bill failed to get scheduled for a hearing before the House Transportation Committee and is now effectively dead this session. SSB 5378 would have permitted lane-splitting on state highways with speed restrictions as a 2-year pilot project that would have to be renewed by the legislature to become permanent law.