CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6535

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 13, 1998   YEAS 47   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 1998   YEAS 88   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 6535 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 6535

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Horn, Patterson, Haugen, Hale and Oke; by request of Washington State Patrol)

Read first time 02/06/98.

Providing for electronic transfer of criminal justice information.  

    AN ACT Relating to electronic transfer of information; and amending RCW 10.98.090.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 10.98.090 and 1985 c 201 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) In all cases where an arrest and fingerprint form is transmitted to the section, the originating agency shall code the form indicating which agency is initially responsible for reporting the disposition to the section.  Coding shall include but not be limited to the prosecuting attorney, superior court, district court, municipal court, or the originating agency.

    (2) In the case of a superior court or felony disposition, the county clerk or prosecuting attorney shall promptly transmit the completed disposition ((form)) information to the section.  In a county where the judicial information system or other secure method of electronic transfer of information has been implemented between the court and the section, the county clerk shall electronically provide the disposition information.  In the case of a felony conviction in a county without the judicial information system or other secure method of electronic transfer of information between the court and the section, the prosecuting attorney shall attach a copy of the judgment and sentence form to the disposition form transmitted to the section.  In the case of a lower court disposition, the district or municipal court administrator shall either promptly transmit the completed disposition form or, in a county where the judicial information system or other secure method of electronic transfer of information has been implemented between the court and the section, electronically provide the disposition information to the section.  For all other dispositions the originating agency shall promptly transmit the completed disposition form to the section.

    (((3) Until October 1, 1985, the prosecuting attorney, upon a felony conviction, shall also forward a copy of the judgment and sentence form to the department.))

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