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Public Safety Committee backs ordinances aligning Seattle code with recent state law changes
Summary
The committee recommended passage of three ordinances to bring Seattle Municipal Code into conformity with state law: updates to civil infractions, criminal code additions and traffic code changes. Each bill passed the committee by voice/roll call and will go to full Council.
The Public Safety Committee on Tuesday recommended passage of three ordinances designed to align the Seattle Municipal Code with changes adopted by the Washington State Legislature, sending each bill to the full City Council after committee votes.
Council Central Staff briefed the committee that the measures are primarily technical updates and state‑law conforming changes that allow the Seattle Municipal Court and city prosecutors to implement newly defined offenses and updated penalties.
Tommaso Johnson of Council Central Staff summarized the bills as “part of a routine annual or semi annual process by which the city attorney's office sends down changes to Seattle municipal code that are a combination of technical corrections, technical fixes, as well as implementation of changes to Washington state law.” The three bills were described as…
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