CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1687
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House February 12, 2020
  Yeas 90  Nays 5
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate February 26, 2020
  Yeas 46  Nays 3
President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1687 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1687
Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2019 Regular Session
ByRepresentatives Stanford, Doglio, Macri, Hansen, Orwall, Appleton, Jinkins, Ormsby, Valdez, and Davis
Read first time 01/28/19.Referred to Committee on Public Safety.
AN ACT Relating to limiting defenses based on victim identity; adding a new section to chapter 9A.08 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 9A.16 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 9A.08 RCW to read as follows:
A defendant does not suffer from diminished capacity based on the discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, including under circumstances in which the victim made an unwanted nonforcible romantic or sexual advance towards the defendant, or in which the defendant and victim dated or had a romantic or sexual relationship.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 9A.16 RCW to read as follows:
A person is not justified in using force against another based on the discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, including under circumstances in which the victim made an unwanted nonforcible romantic or sexual advance towards the defendant, or in which the defendant and victim dated or had a romantic or sexual relationship.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3. This act may be known and cited as the Nikki Kuhnhausen act.
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