| Passed by the House March 10, 2008 Yeas 95 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 7, 2008 Yeas 42 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate | I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2774 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BARBARA BAKER ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved March 20, 2008, 11:24 a.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | March 21, 2008 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 60th Legislature | 2008 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/16/08. Referred to Committee on Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness.
AN ACT Relating to making a false or misleading material statement that results in an Amber alert; adding a new section to chapter 9A.76 RCW; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 9A.76 RCW
to read as follows:
(1) A person who, with the intent of causing an activation of the
voluntary broadcast notification system commonly known as the "Amber
alert," or as the same system may otherwise be known, which is used to
notify the public of abducted children, knowingly makes a false or
misleading material statement to a public servant that a child has been
abducted and which statement causes an activation, is guilty of a class
C felony.
(2) "Material statement" means a written or oral statement
reasonably likely to be relied upon by a public servant in the
discharge of his or her official powers or duties.