CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1003

                   Chapter 137, Laws of 1993

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

   INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT‑-AUTHORITY OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY

     TO REPRESENT CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY SPECIALIST OR PROGRAM

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/93

Passed by the House February 8, 1993   Yeas 95   Nays 0 BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 15, 1993   Yeas 45   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1003 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

ALAN THOMPSON                                Chief Clerk

Approved April 30, 1993 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                          April 30, 1993 - 10:11 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                             SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1003

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                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Riley and Wineberry)

Read first time 01/29/93.  Referred to Committee on .

Concerning judicial proceedings for involuntary commitment or detention.

          AN ACT Relating to involuntary commitment or detention; and adding a new section to chapter 70.96A RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.96A RCW to read as follows:

          The prosecuting attorney of the county in which such action is taken may, at the discretion of the prosecuting attorney, represent the designated chemical dependency specialist or treatment program in judicial proceedings under RCW 70.96A.140 for the involuntary commitment or recommitment of an individual, including any judicial proceeding where the individual sought to be committed or recommitted challenges the action.

          Passed the House February 8, 1993.

          Passed the Senate April 15, 1993.

Approved by the Governor April 30, 1993.

          Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 30, 1993.