CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5290



59th Legislature
2005 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 23, 2005
  YEAS 37   NAYS 10


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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 14, 2005
  YEAS 93   NAYS 1


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5290 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5290
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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

Passed Legislature - 2005 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2005 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development (originally sponsored by Senators Delvin, Rasmussen, Schoesler, Shin, Morton, Jacobsen and Mulliken)

READ FIRST TIME 02/10/05.   



     AN ACT Relating to theft of or damage to livestock; amending RCW 9A.56.080 and 4.24.320; and prescribing penalties.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 9A.56.080 and 2003 c 53 s 74 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Every person who, with intent to sell or exchange and to deprive or defraud the lawful owner thereof, willfully takes, leads, or transports away, conceals, withholds, slaughters, or otherwise appropriates any horse, mule, cow, heifer, bull, steer, swine, goat, or sheep is guilty of theft of livestock in the first degree.
     (2) Theft of livestock in the first degree is a class B felony.

Sec. 2   RCW 4.24.320 and 2003 c 53 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     Any person who suffers damage((s)) to livestock as a result of actions described in RCW ((9A.48.080(c))) 16.52.205 or any owner of ((a horse, mule, cow, heifer, bull, steer, swine, or sheep)) livestock who suffers damage((s)) as a result of a willful, unauthorized act described in RCW 9A.56.080 or 9A.56.083 may bring an action against the person or persons committing the act in a court of competent jurisdiction for exemplary damages up to three times the actual damages sustained, plus attorney's fees. As used in this section, "livestock" means the animals specified in RCW 9A.56.080.

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