BILL REQ. #:  S-4468.1 

Read first time 01/24/2006.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to robbery in the first degree; 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 2002 c 85 s 1 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:
     (i) Is armed with a deadly weapon; or
     (ii) Displays what appears to be a firearm or other deadly weapon; or
     (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. Evidence showing that the establishment robbed was a financial institution is not required when "bank," "savings and loan," "trust," "payday," or "credit union" appears in the name of the establishment.
     (2) Robbery in the first degree is a class A felony.