This bill makes broad changes to Washington law across driver licensing, identification, transportation programs, tolls and cameras, taxes and fees, and state treasury distributions. It creates new definitions and a statutory framework for a "mobile credential" (an electronic extension of a physical driver’s license or identicard) and for "relying parties" that verify such credentials. The Department of Licensing must adopt rules by January 1, 2028 and establish a program by July 1, 2028 allowing qualifying applicants to obtain an optional mobile credential in addition to a physical document; relying parties must authenticate credentials to AAMVA/ISO standards, may retain mobile credential data only with explicit consent, and must notify holders of retention/use. The bill also amends driver’s license and identicard statutes (changing base fees and fee schedules, setting a $10 per license-year base fee with a periodic $1-per-year increase starting July 1, 2028 for driver licenses and providing identicard fee and term options), adds confidentiality and self‑attestation rules for certain medical/developmental/deafness designations, and adds one-time and ongoing fees to fund issuance and mobile credential costs. The bill establishes several new transportation programs and procedures and changes permitting and procurement rules. It creates a competitive bus and bus facilities grant program and a statewide school-based bicycle education grant program with dedicated funding transfers beginning September 2029 and equity-based selection criteria. It sets up a streamlined review and approval pathway for certain fish habitat enhancement projects with strict timelines (45 days for non-forest projects, 30 days for DOT fish passage correction projects), appeal routes, and limits on local permit fees; it requires environmental justice and geographic diversity considerations in grant selection. It requires the Department of Transportation to create a process and deadlines for leasing highway right-of-way to clean energy facility developers (including fair market value and binding arbitration rules), and it authorizes biometric and facial recognition systems for identity verification related to enhanced credentials, with specified uses, accuracy standards, notice requirements, and limits on disclosure. The bill also changes enforcement, fee, and revenue rules. It revises automated traffic safety camera enforcement by creating a prima facie presumption tying registered ownership to control of a vehicle in camera-detected violations (with limited ways to rebut), tightens signage, reporting, and use-of-revenue rules for cities/counties (including that no grantee may receive more than 35% of certain grant funds and camera revenue use limits), requires deposit of 10% of camera infraction revenue into an active transportation safety account starting July 1, 2028, caps certain camera fines (maximum $145 subject to inflation adjustments), and provides reduced penalties for some public-assistance recipients. It amends toll/photo enforcement by establishing an administrative adjudication process at WSDOT, enumerating mitigating circumstances that permit reduction or dismissal of civil penalties, requiring outreach and notice practices, protecting photographs/records from public disclosure except for enforcement, and setting the civil penalty at $40 plus toll and fees. On taxation and fees the act imposes new and altered taxes and dedicated distributions: an additional retail car rental tax (11.9% in 2026, 9.9% from 2027), a peer-to-peer car sharing tax beginning 2027 tied to the retail rate, a 0.5% additional tax on retail vehicle sales and on recreational vessel purchases beginning July 1, 2026, multiple fuel tax increases including formulas for annual recalculation beginning in 2026 and 2028, a $5 per-tire retail fee, an aircraft fuel excise tax increase to $0.25 per gallon and a $30 aircraft registration fee with annual 2% increases beginning 2028, and numerous specific allocations to the multimodal transportation account, Puget Sound ferry/capital accounts, performance audit account, and other funds. The bill reenacts and amends RCW 43.84.092 to create a treasury income account for investment earnings, directs OFM and the State Treasurer on monthly distribution and CMIA-related transfers, and lists many named accounts to receive proportionate earnings. This description only summarizes the extracted provisions. The bill text in the provided material is incomplete in many places: several subsections and cross-referenced RCW amendments are cut off or not shown, numerous specific allocation details and some definitions are referenced but not included, and the bill header lists many additional RCWs to be amended or repealed whose text was not provided. Where the source text is missing or truncated, those details are uncertain and are not inferred here.

If enacted, the bill will create a statewide optional mobile driver's license and identicard program that the Department of Licensing must have rules for by January 1, 2028 and offer to qualifying applicants by July 1, 2028, require relying parties to electronically authenticate such credentials to specified standards and obtain consent before retaining any credential data, and require new biometric and facial matching systems for enhanced documents. It also raises and adds a range of transportation-related taxes and fees (including new or higher charges on car rentals, peer-to-peer sharing, vehicle sales, recreational vessels, fuel, tires, and aircraft fuel/registration) and directs those revenues into specific transportation accounts (multimodal, Puget Sound ferry and capital accounts, sustainable aviation fuel, performance audits account, Cooper Jones safety account, and others). At the same time it tightens how automated traffic cameras and photo toll systems operate—creating owner presumptions, appeal and mitigation rules, signage and reporting duties, limits on how local jurisdictions may spend camera revenue, and new requirements for toll adjudication and outreach—and it establishes a treasury income account with monthly interest allocations to many named state funds. The practical impacts will fall first on the Department of Licensing (new program, rulemaking, biometric systems, and ongoing issuance costs funded by added application fees), businesses and public agencies that accept IDs (new authentication duties, consent and retention limits), and cities/counties that run camera programs (new reporting, equity-based spending limits, and a required share of revenues sent to statewide accounts). Motorists, vehicle purchasers, renters, peer-to-peer owners, vessel buyers, fuel purchasers, and aircraft operators are likely to face higher taxes and costs tied to the many new or increased rates, while transit, bicycle education, ferry, and other transportation programs will receive new revenues. Several important implementation details and some subsections (for example full identicard subsection (7), precise fee distributions in a few places, and other cross-referenced provisions) are missing from the provided text, so exact timing, administrative procedures, and some revenue flows remain uncertain.