The bill amends multiple existing Washington transportation statutes. It narrows public access to vehicle and vessel owner names and addresses in RCW 46.12.635 by allowing disclosure only in limited circumstances (for department-defined business entities that submit a signed written request specifying purpose and enter a disclosure agreement, for courts and law enforcement, and other enumerated exceptions), requires retention of disclosure requests for three years, requires notification to owners when their records are disclosed to attorneys or private investigators, allows law enforcement redisclosure for hazardous vessel matters, exempts participants in the state address confidentiality program from most releases, and adds a $2 per-record fee for business-entity requests deposited into the highway safety fund. These are procedural and record-privacy changes rather than new crimes or penalties. The bill also modifies odometer disclosure rules in RCW 46.12.665 and related sections by requiring a written odometer disclosure statement with every title application (on the title or on a department-approved secure form for titles issued after April 30, 1990), specifying required elements and signature rules for transferor and transferee, listing vehicle classes exempt from the odometer requirement (including very heavy vehicles, non-self-propelled vehicles, vehicles 20 years old or older, certain manufacturer-to-federal sales, and new vehicles before first retail sale), and extending the requirement to certain lease and fleet transfers. These are procedural documentation and recordkeeping requirements. The act also updates procedural rules for driver improvement interviews, formal hearings, CDL/CLP issuance checks and reporting, certified driving-record abstracts, habitual offender revocation and hearing procedures (including a seven-year revocation for habitual offenders and related hearing and appeal timelines), and repeals RCW 46.18.240 and 46.18.250. These are amendments to existing law, mostly procedural and administrative in nature. Some parts of the provided text are incomplete or duplicated in the extracts. The department’s rule definition of “business entity,” the full text of repeated amendments to RCW 46.12.665, the specific contents of Sections 2 and 3 where they differ (and the stated expiration/effective sequencing), and precise fee amounts referenced by cross-citation are not included here, so those details are uncertain from the available extracts.

If enacted, the bill will restrict public access to vehicle and vessel owner names and addresses except for limited, documented business or government uses, requiring businesses to submit a signed written request, agree in writing to limited uses, and pay $2 per record (paid into the highway safety fund). Department of Licensing staff, county auditors, and authorized agencies will need to retain disclosure requests for three years, enforce the no-unsolicited-contact rule, notify owners when attorneys or private investigators obtain their information, and continue to provide broader access to courts and law enforcement (including mandatory vessel record disclosures and redisclosure when dealing with hazardous vessels). People in the address confidentiality program get explicit protection from release of ownership and identifying vehicle/vessel information. These changes take effect mostly October 1, 2025, with some sections changing or expiring January 1, 2031; the bill leaves the department to define “business entity” by rule. The bill also adds a universal written odometer disclosure requirement at title application, with a secure form required when the title was issued after April 30, 1990, and requires both transferor and transferee signatures and delivery of a signed copy at transfer. Sellers and buyers of vehicles will face more paperwork and specific certification rules about mileage (including special rules when the odometer shows 100,000 miles or more), and exemptions apply for heavy, non-self-propelled, manufacturer-to-federal-agency, new, and certain older vehicles — the provided text contains inconsistent language about the age exemption (it lists both “model year 2010 or older” and “20 years old or older”), so the exact applicability for older vehicles is unclear from the extracted material.