CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5050

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate January 12, 1996   YEAS 47   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House February 26, 1996   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5050 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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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5050

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Morton, Smith, Rasmussen and Schow)

Read first time 01/10/96.

Revising the elements of the crime of burglary in the first degree.

    AN ACT Relating to burglary in the first degree; and amending RCW 9A.52.020.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.52.020 and 1995 c 129 s 9 (Initiative Measure No. 159) are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A person is guilty of burglary in the first degree if, with intent to commit a crime against a person or property therein, he or she enters or remains unlawfully in a building and if, in entering or while in the building or in immediate flight therefrom, the actor or another participant in the crime (a) is armed with a deadly weapon, or (b) assaults any person ((therein)).

    (2) Burglary in the first degree is a class A felony.

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