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                                 SENATE BILL 5000

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Bauer, McCaslin, Sutherland, Snyder, Nelson, Rasmussen, Conner and Thorsness.

Read first time January 14, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.Exempting property from execution when another state attempts to take it for failure to pay income tax on pension benefits.

     AN ACT Relating to exempting property from execution; and adding a new section to chapter 6.15 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 6.15 RCW to read as follows:

     Property in this state of a judgment debtor where the judgment is in favor of any other state for failure to pay that state's income tax on benefits received from a pension or other retirement plan shall be exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, or seizure by or under any legal process whatever, and when a debtor dies, or absconds, and leaves his or her family any money exempted by this section, the same shall be exempt to the family.