CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1989
Chapter 111, Laws of 2024
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
GRAFFITI ABATEMENT AND REDUCTION PILOT PROGRAM
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the House February 10, 2024 CERTIFICATE
Yeas 96 Nays 1
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives of the
LAURIE JINKINS State of Washington, do hereby
Speaker of the House of certify that the attached is
Representatives SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1989 as
passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate on
the dates hereon set forth.
Passed by the Senate February 28,
2024
Yeas 38 Nays 11 BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk
DENNY HECK
President of the Senate
Approved March 15, 2024 9:42 AM FILED
March 15, 2024
Secretary of State
JAY INSLEE State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
 SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1989
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington 68th Legislature 2024 Regular Session
By House Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives
Barkis, Low, Jacobsen, Graham, Sandlin, Bergquist, Robertson, and
Hutchins)
READ FIRST TIME 02/05/24.
1 AN ACT Relating to a graffiti abatement and reduction program;
2 creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
4 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) Subject to funds appropriated for this
5 purpose, the department of transportation must complete a graffiti
6 abatement and reduction pilot program that includes, but is not
7 limited to:
8 (a) Field testing spray drone technology for the purpose of more
9 efficiently painting over existing graffiti;
10 (b) Investigate and test improvements to systems capable of
11 identifying persons who damage property with graffiti;
12 (c) The department is directed to test these systems and
13 additional graffiti prevention techniques prioritizing the Interstate
14 5 Puget Sound region from Tacoma to Seattle and the north Spokane
15 corridor;
16 (d) The department is directed to report to the appropriate
17 committees of the legislature on the graffiti abatement and reduction
18 pilot program, including on the use of funding, the results of
19 actions used to identify people who damage property with graffiti, as
20 well as on the field testing of spray drone technology for painting
21 over graffiti. The report is due by December 1, 2024.
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1 (2) This section expires July 1, 2025.
Passed by the House February 10, 2024.
Passed by the Senate February 28, 2024.
Approved by the Governor March 15, 2024.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 15, 2024.
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