BILL REQ. #:  H-0323.1 

Read first time 01/15/09.   Referred to Committee on Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness.

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

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) 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; 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.