BILL REQ. #:  H-4665.1 

READ FIRST TIME 01/26/10.   

     AN ACT Relating to the definition of relative for purposes of the crime of rendering criminal assistance; amending RCW 9A.76.060; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 9A.76.060 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.76.060 are each amended to read as follows:
     As used in RCW 9A.76.070 and 9A.76.080, "relative" means a person:
     (1)(a) Who was under the age of eighteen at the time of the offense, and is related as husband or wife, brother or sister, parent or grandparent, child or grandchild, step-child or step-parent to the person to whom criminal assistance is rendered; or
     (b) Who provides emergency medical assistance and who is related to the same person as husband or wife, brother or sister, parent or grandparent, child or grandchild, stepchild or stepparent to whom criminal assistance is rendered; and
     (2) Who does not render criminal assistance to another person in one or more of the means defined in subsections (4), (5), or (6) of RCW 9A.76.050.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2    This act shall be known as Randy's law.