CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2511

                    Chapter 85, Laws of 2002

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

ROBBERIES--FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/13/02

Passed by the House February 18, 2002   Yeas 94   Nays 0               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 5, 2002   Yeas 47   Nays 0	CERTIFICATE I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2511 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.            CYNTHIA ZEHNDER                           Chief Clerk
BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved March 21, 2002 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                            March 21, 2002 - 2:51 p.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                 SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2511

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives O'Brien, Ballasiotes, Schoesler, Kessler, Kirby, Santos, Benson, Edwards, Kenney, Chase, Lovick, Wood and Casada)

Read first time 02/09/2002.  Referred to Committee on .

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.

    Passed the House February 18, 2002.

    Passed the Senate March 5, 2002.

Approved by the Governor March 21, 2002.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 21, 2002.