BILL REQ. #: H-1792.2

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1178
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State of Washington

59th Legislature

2005 Regular Session

By House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives McDonald, Dickerson, Rodne, Kagi, Priest, Ahern, Pearson, Campbell, McCune, Kristiansen, Moeller, Dunn, Nixon, Darneille, Shabro, Schual-Berke, Roach, Strow, O'Brien, Condotta and Holmquist)

READ FIRST TIME 03/01/05.

AN ACT Relating to ensuring the rights of parents to monitor the communications and conversations of their minor children; amending RCW 9.73.080; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 The legislature finds that parents have the right and the responsibility to protect the welfare and health of their minor children and that a parent therefore should not be criminally liable for intercepting or recording any phone conversation of his or her minor child.

Sec. 2   RCW 9.73.080 and 2000 c 195 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person, other than a parent or legal guardian who is monitoring his or her own minor child's telephone conversations, who violates RCW 9.73.030 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
     (2) Any person who knowingly alters, erases, or wrongfully discloses any recording in violation of RCW 9.73.090(1)(c) is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

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