BILL REQ. #:  H-3964.1 

Read first time 01/12/10.   Referred to Committee on Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness.

     AN ACT Relating to establishing the crime of rendering aggravated criminal assistance in the first degree involving murder in the first degree of a peace officer; amending RCW 9A.76.050; adding a new section to chapter 9A.76 RCW; creating a new section; and prescribing penalties.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   This act may be known as the Lakewood law enforcement officers memorial act.

Sec. 2   RCW 9A.76.050 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 47 s 20 are each amended to read as follows:
     As used in RCW 9A.76.070, 9A.76.080, ((and)) 9A.76.090, and section 3 of this act, a person "renders criminal assistance" if, with intent to prevent, hinder, or delay the apprehension or prosecution of another person who he knows has committed a crime or juvenile offense or is being sought by law enforcement officials for the commission of a crime or juvenile offense or has escaped from a detention facility, he:
     (1) Harbors or conceals such person; or
     (2) Warns such person of impending discovery or apprehension; or
     (3) Provides such person with money, transportation, disguise, or other means of avoiding discovery or apprehension; or
     (4) Prevents or obstructs, by use of force, deception, or threat, anyone from performing an act that might aid in the discovery or apprehension of such person; or
     (5) Conceals, alters, or destroys any physical evidence that might aid in the discovery or apprehension of such person; or
     (6) Provides such person with a weapon.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   A new section is added to chapter 9A.76 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) A person is guilty of rendering aggravated criminal assistance in the first degree if he or she renders criminal assistance to a person who has committed or is being sought for murder in the first degree of a peace officer and, if the person who has committed or is being sought for the offense were to be convicted or plead guilty of the offense, the person would become a persistent offender under the provisions of RCW 9.94A.570.
     (2)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, rendering aggravated criminal assistance in the first degree is a class B felony.
     (b) Rendering aggravated criminal assistance in the first degree is a class C felony, if it is established by a preponderance of the evidence that the actor is a relative as defined in RCW 9A.76.060.