CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6254

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 12, 1994   YEAS 43   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 2, 1994   YEAS 95   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6254 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6254

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senators Fraser, Loveland, M. Rasmussen and Winsley

Read first time 01/18/94.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Authorizing counties to file claims against escheat property for funeral or burial expenses of indigent persons.

    AN ACT Relating to funeral or burial expenses of indigent persons; and amending RCW 36.39.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 36.39.030 and 1963 c 4 s 36.39.030 are each amended to read as follows:

    The ((board of county commissioners)) county legislative authority of any county shall provide for the disposition of the remains of any indigent person including a recipient of public assistance who dies within the county and whose body is unclaimed by relatives or church organization.  The county legislative authority may file a claim for funeral or burial expenses against any escheat property which reverts to the state under RCW 11.08.150.

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