CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1712

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 4, 1996   Yeas 95   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 27, 1996   Yeas 47   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1712 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1712

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Lambert, Cooke, Padden, Crouse, Hargrove and Elliot

Read first time 02/06/95.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Prescribing procedures for pretrial release.

    AN ACT Relating to pretrial release; and adding a new section to chapter 10.19 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 10.19 RCW to read as follows:

    Notwithstanding CrR 3.2, a court who releases a defendant arrested or charged with a violent offense as defined in RCW 9.94A.030 on the offender's personal recognizance or personal recognizance with conditions must state on the record the reasons why the court did not require the defendant to post bail.

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