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                          HOUSE BILL 2511

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By Representatives O'Brien, Ballasiotes, Schoesler, Kessler, Kirby, Santos, Benson, Edwards, Kenney, Chase, Lovick, Wood and Casada

Read first time 01/18/2002.  Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections.

Making any robbery within a financial institution a first degree robbery.

    AN ACT Relating to robbery within a financial institution; amending RCW 9A.56.200; and prescribing penalties.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.56.200 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.56.200 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A person is guilty of robbery in the first degree if:

(a) In the commission of a robbery or of immediate flight therefrom, he or she:

    (((a))) (i) Is armed with a deadly weapon; or

    (((b))) (ii) Displays what appears to be a firearm or other deadly weapon; or

    (((c))) (iii) Inflicts bodily injury; or

(b) He or she commits a robbery within and against a financial institution as defined in RCW 7.88.010 or 35.38.060.

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

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