CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6518

55th Legislature

1998 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 12, 1998

YEAS 49 NAYS 0

President of the Senate

Passed by the House March 4, 1998

YEAS 98 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6518 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6518

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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Roach, Benton, Long, Oke, Zarelli, Rossi, Sellar, Snyder, Johnson, Horn, McDonald, Hale, Strannigan, McCaslin, Prentice, Schow, Fraser, Deccio, Swecker, Morton, Goings, Bauer, Rasmussen and Haugen)

Read first time 02/06/98.

AN ACT Relating to rape in the first degree; reenacting and amending RCW 9A.44.040; and prescribing penalties.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 9A.44.040 and 1983 c 118 s 1 and 1983 c 73 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

(1) A person is guilty of rape in the first degree when such person engages in sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion where the perpetrator or an accessory:

(a) Uses or threatens to use a deadly weapon or what appears to be a deadly weapon; or

(b) Kidnaps the victim; or

(c) Inflicts serious physical injury, including but not limited to physical injury which renders the victim unconscious; or

(d) Feloniously enters into the building or vehicle where the victim is situated.

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