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                     ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2350

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives McDonald, Mulliken, Thompson, Dunn, Lambert, Mason and Sullivan

Read first time 01/12/98.  Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections.

Directing the Washington state crime information center to provide law enforcement agencies with access to sex offender central registry information. 

    AN ACT Relating to the Washington state crime information center; amending RCW 43.43.500 and 43.43.510; and providing an effective date.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.43.500 and 1967 ex.s. c 27 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    There is established the Washington state crime information center to be located in the records division of the Washington state patrol and to function under the direction of the chief of the Washington state patrol.  The center shall serve to coordinate crime information, by means of data processing, for all law enforcement agencies in the state.  It shall make such use of the facilities of the law enforcement teletype system as is practical.  It shall provide access to the national crime information center, to motor vehicle and driver license information, to the sex offender central registry, and to such other public records as may be accessed by data processing and which are pertinent to law enforcement.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 43.43.510 and 1995 c 312 s 45 are each amended to read as follows:

    As soon as is practical and feasible there shall be established, by means of data processing, files listing stolen and wanted vehicles, outstanding warrants, identifying children whose parents, custodians, or legal guardians have reported as having run away from home or the custodial residence, identifiable stolen property, files maintaining the central registry of sex offenders required to register under chapter 9A.44 RCW, and such other files as may be of general assistance to law enforcement agencies.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act takes effect June 30, 1999.

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