CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5004

                    Chapter 59, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

            OUT-OF-STATE PUBLIC RECORDS AS EVIDENCE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the Senate February 18, 1991

  Yeas 47   Nays 0

           ELLEN CRASWELL           

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 15, 1991

  Yeas 95   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved May 3, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5004 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

           GORDON A. GOLOB            Secretary

                                     FILED         

                   May 3, 1991 - 9:52 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                                 SENATE BILL 5004

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators L. Kreidler and Nelson.

Read first time January 14, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.Permitting certified public records from other states to be admissible evidence.

     AN ACT Relating to public records as evidence; and amending RCW 5.44.040.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 5.44.040 and 1891 c 19 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:

     Copies of all records and documents on record or on file in the offices of the various departments of the United States and of this state or any other state or territory of the United States, when duly certified by the respective officers having by law the custody thereof, under their respective seals where such officers have official seals, shall be admitted in evidence in the courts of this state.

     Passed the Senate February 18, 1991.

     Passed the House April 15, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 3, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 3, 1991.