FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 5022

This analysis was prepared by non-partisan legislative staff for the use of legislative members in their deliberations. This analysis is not a part of the legislation nor does it constitute a statement of legislative intent.

C 153 L 13

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Changing retail theft with extenuating circumstances to retail theft with special circumstances.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Padden, Sheldon and Carrell).

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

House Committee on Public Safety

Background: A person commits the crime of retail theft with extenuating circumstances if the individual commits theft of property from a mercantile establishment with one of the following circumstances:

Retail theft with extenuating circumstances may be charged in the first, second, or third degree, depending on the value of the items taken.

The term extenuating circumstances is not defined in the Revised Code of Washington.

Summary: The crime of retail theft with extenuating circumstances is changed to retail theft with special circumstances.

Special circumstances are defined to mean the particular aggravating circumstances described in the statutory definition of the offense.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate

49

0

House

92

0

(House amended)

Senate

47

0

(Senate concurred)

Effective:

January 1, 2014