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                          HOUSE BILL 2790

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representatives Ballasiotes, Lovick, O'Brien, Radcliff, Constantine, Dickerson, Kenney and Edmonds; by request of Washington State Patrol and Department of General Administration

Read first time 01/20/2000.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Prohibiting firearms on state capitol campus grounds.

    AN ACT Relating to firearms in state capitol buildings; adding a new section to chapter 9.41 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 9.41 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) It is unlawful for any person to carry, transport, convey, or to have in his or her possession or under his or her control any firearm while within the east state capitol campus grounds, the west state capitol campus grounds, or the old capitol building.  This section does not apply to a law enforcement officer, security personnel, or a person engaged in military activities sponsored by the federal or state government while engaged in official duties.  This section does not apply within the parking area of any parking lot or parking garage.

    (2) For the purposes of this section:

    (a) "East state capitol campus grounds" means those grounds, and buildings on those grounds, described in RCW 79.24.500 that include the campus area north of Maple Park (16th Avenue) and south of 11th Avenue, east of Capitol Way and west of Interstate 5 and the Interstate 5 entrance to the state capitol.

    (b) "West state capitol campus grounds" means those state-owned grounds, and buildings on those grounds, that constitute the state capitol grounds west of Capitol Way, including all of the grounds addressed in the 1928 Olmsted Brothers landscape plan for the state capitol grounds and the state capitol historic district, as designated in the National Register of Historic Places, but excluding the area bounded by Union Avenue on the north, Columbia Street on the west, 11th Avenue on the south, and Capitol Way on the east.

    (3) Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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