2255 AMS MADS S4610.1

HB 2255 - S AMD TO LAW COMM AMD (S-4225.1/92)

By Senator Madsen

    On page 7, after line 2 of the amendment, insert the following:

    "Sec. 2.  RCW 7.68.200 and 1979 ex.s. c 219 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:

    After hearing, as provided in RCW 7.68.210, every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity contracting , for the purpose of initiating, managing, or producing income or proceeds in which the contract seeks to exploit in any way the criminal act, including any activity, service, or use related to the criminal act, or deriving its primary value from the crime, the notoriety of the crime, or the notoriety or status of the criminal offender in such a way that but for the commission of the criminal act, the activity, service, or use would have no or substantially less value to the contracting party, with any person or the representative or assignee of any person, accused or convicted of a crime in this state, ((with respect to the reenactment of such crime, by way of a movie, book, magazine article, tape recording, phonograph record, radio or television presentation, live entertainment of any kind, or from the expression of such accused or convicted person's thoughts, feelings, opinion or emotions regarding such crime, shall submit a copy of such contract to the department and)) shall pay over to the department any moneys and proceeds which would otherwise, by terms of such contract, be owing to the person so accused or convicted or his or her representatives.  The department shall deposit such moneys and proceeds in an escrow account for the benefit of and payable to any victim or the legal representative of any victim of crimes committed by: (i) Such convicted person; or (ii) such accused person, but only if such accused person is eventually convicted of the crime and provided that such victim, within five years of the date of the establishment of such escrow account, brings a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction and recovers a money judgment for damages against such person or his or her representatives."

HB 2255 - S AMD TO LAW COMM AMD (S-4225.1/92)

By Senator Madsen

    On page 7, line 7 of the title amendment, after "7.68.070" insert "and 7.68.200"