CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5736

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 23, 1997   YEAS 40   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 15, 1997   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5736 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.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5736

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Roach, Winsley, Oke, Benton, Schow, Snyder, Heavey, Bauer and Rasmussen

Read first time 02/10/97.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Increasing county burial costs for indigent deceased veterans.

    AN ACT Relating to county burial costs for indigent deceased veterans; and amending RCW 73.08.070.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 73.08.070 and 1983 c 295 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    It shall be the duty of the legislative authority in each of the counties in this state to designate some proper authority other than the one designated by law for the care of paupers and the custody of criminals who shall cause to be interred at the expense of the county the body of any honorably discharged veterans as defined in RCW 41.04.005 and the wives, husbands, minor children, widows or widowers of such veterans, who shall hereafter die without leaving means sufficient to defray funeral expenses; and when requested so to do by the commanding officer of any post, camp or chapter of any national organization of veterans now, or which may hereafter be, chartered by an act of congress or the relief committee of any such posts, camps or chapters:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That such interment shall not cost more than the limit established by the county legislative authority nor less than three hundred dollars.  If the deceased has relatives or friends who desire to conduct the burial of such deceased person, then upon request of said commander or relief committee a sum not to exceed the limit established by the county legislative authority nor less than three hundred dollars shall be paid to said relatives or friends by the county treasurer, upon due proof of the death and burial of any person provided for by this section and proof of expenses incurred.

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