CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1489

                   Chapter 312, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

        TELECOMMUNICATIONS‑‑RIGHT OF PRIVACY-‑EXCEPTIONS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the House March 13, 1991

  Yeas 74   Nays 24

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 8, 1991

  Yeas 36   Nays 13

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Approved May 21, 1991 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1489 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                  May 21, 1991 - 9:55 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                                  HOUSE BILL 1489

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives H. Myers, May, Grant, Miller, Ebersole, Ballard, Belcher, Casada, Leonard, Hine, Bray, Appelwick, Hochstatter, R. Meyers, Morris, Cooper, Rayburn, Schmidt, Broback, Neher, Wynne, Betrozoff and Winsley.

Read first time January 31, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.Adding limited new services to the current common carrier exceptions to the privacy act.

     AN ACT Relating to the right of privacy; and amending RCW 9.73.070.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 9.73.070 and 1967 ex.s. c 93 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any activity in connection with services provided by a common carrier pursuant to its tariffs on file with the Washington utilities and transportation commission or the Federal Communication Commission and any activity of any officer, agent or employee of a common carrier who performs any act otherwise prohibited by this law in the construction, maintenance, repair and operations of the common carrier's communications services, facilities, or equipment or incident to the use of such services, facilities or equipment.  Common carrier as used in this section means any person engaged as a common carrier or public service company for hire in intrastate, interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio or in intrastate, interstate or foreign radio transmission of energy.

(2) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any common carrier automatic number, caller, or location identification service, including an enhanced 911 emergency service, that has been approved by the Washington utilities and transportation commission.

     Passed the House March 13, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 8, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 21, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 21, 1991.