CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5882

                   Chapter 345, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

                DRUGS ASSETS PROPERTY FORFEITURE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the Senate April 22, 1991

  Yeas 44   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 19, 1991

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved May 21, 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 SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5882 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

           GORDON A. GOLOB            Secretary

                                     FILED         

                 May 21, 1991 - 11:17 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                        SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5882

                              AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Pelz, McCaslin, Johnson, Madsen, Moore and Owen).

Read first time March 11, 1991.Creating a drug asset forfeiture and criminal profiteering unit in the attorney general's office.

     AN ACT Relating to drug assets property forfeiture by criminals; adding new sections to chapter 43.10 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.      The legislature finds that drug asset forfeiture and criminal profiteering laws allow law enforcement officials and the courts to strip drug dealers and other successful criminals of the wealth they have acquired from their crimes and the assets they have used to facilitate those crimes.  These laws are rarely used by prosecutors, however, because of the difficulty in identifying profiteering and the assets that criminals may have as a result of their crimes.  It is the intent of the legislature to provide assistance to local law enforcement officials and state agencies to seize the assets of criminals and the proceeds of their profiteering.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 43.10 RCW to read as follows:

     The attorney general may:  (1) Assist local law enforcement officials in the development of cases arising under the criminal profiteering laws with special emphasis on narcotics related cases; (2) assist local prosecutors in the litigation of criminal profiteering or drug asset forfeiture cases, or, at the request of a prosecutor's office, litigate such cases on its behalf; and (3) conduct seminars and training sessions on prosecution of criminal profiteering cases and drug asset forfeiture cases.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 43.10 RCW to read as follows:

     All assets recovered pursuant to section 2 of this act shall be distributed in the following manner:  (1) For drug asset forfeitures, pursuant to the provisions of RCW 69.50.505; and (2) for criminal profiteering cases, pursuant to the provisions of RCW 9A.82.100.

     Passed the Senate April 22, 1991.

     Passed the House April 19, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 21, 1991.

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