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SB1289Introduced in the Senate

Relating To Traffic Violations.

IntroducedSenate Ways and Means

Introduced by Samantha DeCorte, District 22

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Limits moving violations arising from the operation of a motor vehicle that appear on traffic abstracts to those that resulted in convictions. Requires the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus to remove all dismissed moving violations not resulting in a conviction from certified abstracts. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Where it stands

Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

December 8, 2025

How did lawmakers vote?

SenateStage: Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts: Passed, With Amendments · February 11, 2025

5

Yes

0

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

5 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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Bill history

  1. Pending Introduction.

  2. Introduced and passed First Reading.

  3. Referred to TCA, WAM/JDC.

  4. The committee(s) on TCA has scheduled a public hearing on 02-11-25 3:01PM; Conference Room 224 & Videoconference.

  5. The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Inouye, Elefante, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

  6. Reported from TCA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 486) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM/JDC.

  7. Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM/JDC.

  8. Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

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