CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1067

 

 

                    Chapter 97, Laws of 1997

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

 

 

MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES INVOLVING DEATHS--REMOVAL OF LIMITS ON COMMENCEMENT OF PROSECUTIONS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the House February 3, 1997

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 9, 1997

  Yeas 41   Nays 1

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1067  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved April 21, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.     

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 21, 1997 - 4:14 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 1067

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Sterk, Thompson, Costa, Sheahan, Sherstad, Smith, Mielke and O'Brien

 

Read first time 01/13/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

 

 

Extending the time limits for commencing a prosecution for certain traffic crimes where a death results.     


    AN ACT Relating to motor vehicle offenses involving deaths; and reenacting and amending RCW 9A.04.080.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.04.080 and 1995 c 287 s 5 and 1995 c 17 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

    (1) Prosecutions for criminal offenses shall not be commenced after the periods prescribed in this section.

    (a) The following offenses may be prosecuted at any time after their commission:

    (i) Murder;

    (ii) Homicide by abuse;

    (iii) Arson if a death results;

    (iv) Vehicular homicide;

    (v) Vehicular assault if a death results;

    (vi) Hit-and-run injury-accident if a death results (RCW 46.52.020(4)).

    (b) The following offenses shall not be prosecuted more than ten years after their commission:

    (i) Any felony committed by a public officer if the commission is in connection with the duties of his or her office or constitutes a breach of his or her public duty or a violation of the oath of office;

    (ii) Arson if no death results; or

    (iii) Violations of RCW 9A.44.040 or 9A.44.050 if the rape is reported to a law enforcement agency within one year of its commission; except that if the victim is under fourteen years of age when the rape is committed and the rape is reported to a law enforcement agency within one year of its commission, the violation may be prosecuted up to three years after the victim's eighteenth birthday or up to ten years after the rape's commission, whichever is later.  If a violation of RCW 9A.44.040 or 9A.44.050 is not reported within one year, the rape may not be prosecuted:  (A) More than three years after its commission if the violation was committed against a victim fourteen years of age or older; or (B) more than three years after the victim's eighteenth birthday or more than seven years after the rape's commission, whichever is later, if the violation was committed against a victim under fourteen years of age.

    (c) Violations of the following statutes shall not be prosecuted more than three years after the victim's eighteenth birthday or more than seven years after their commission, whichever is later:  RCW 9A.44.073, 9A.44.076, 9A.44.083, 9A.44.086, 9A.44.070, 9A.44.080, 9A.44.100(1)(b), or 9A.64.020.

    (d) The following offenses shall not be prosecuted more than six years after their commission:  Violations of RCW 9A.82.060 or 9A.82.080.

    (e) The following offenses shall not be prosecuted more than five years after their commission:  Any class C felony under chapter 74.09, 82.36, or 82.38 RCW.

    (f) Bigamy shall not be prosecuted more than three years after the time specified in RCW 9A.64.010.

    (g) No other felony may be prosecuted more than three years after its commission.

    (h) No gross misdemeanor may be prosecuted more than two years after its commission.

    (i) No misdemeanor may be prosecuted more than one year after its commission.

    (2) The periods of limitation prescribed in subsection (1) of this section do not run during any time when the person charged is not usually and publicly resident within this state.

    (3) If, before the end of a period of limitation prescribed in subsection (1) of this section, an indictment has been found or a complaint or an information has been filed, and the indictment, complaint, or information is set aside, then the period of limitation is extended by a period equal to the length of time from the finding or filing to the setting aside.


    Passed the House February 3, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 9, 1997.

Approved by the Governor April 21, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1997.