CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5050

 

 

                    Chapter 15, Laws of 1996

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

 

 

                 BURGLARY--REVISION OF ELEMENTS

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/6/96

Passed by the Senate January 12, 1996

  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

 

 

 

            JOEL PRITCHARD

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.

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

             MARTY BROWN

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved March 7, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 7, 1996 - 10:04 a.m.

 

 

 

              MIKE LOWRY

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.


    Passed the Senate January 12, 1996.

    Passed the House February 26, 1996.

Approved by the Governor March 7, 1996.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 7, 1996.