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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 897

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Silver, Dellwo, Day, Moyer, D. Sommers, Bumgarner, Sanders, Betrozoff, Jesernig, C. Smith, Padden, Basich and Schoon

Read first time 2/13/87 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to profits from criminal activities; and amending RCW 7.68.200.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 13, chapter 219, Laws of 1979 ex. sess. and RCW 7.68.200 are each amended to read as follows:

          After hearing, as provided in RCW 7.68.210, every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity contracting with any person or the representative or assignee or relative of any person, accused or convicted of a crime in this state, with respect to the reenactment of such crime, by way of a movie, book, magazine article, tape recording, phonograph record, radio or television presentation, live entertainment of any kind, or from the expression of such accused or convicted person's thoughts, feelings, opinion or emotions regarding such crime, shall submit a copy of such contract to the department and pay over to the department any moneys which would otherwise, by terms of such contract, be owing to the person so accused or convicted or his representatives or relatives.  The department shall deposit such moneys in an escrow account for the benefit of and payable to any victim or the legal representative of any victim of crimes committed by: (i) such convicted person; or (ii) such accused person, but only if such accused person is eventually convicted of the crime and provided that such victim, within five years of the date of the establishment of such escrow account, brings a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction and recovers a money judgment for damages against such person or ((his)) the person's representatives or after payment begins under a contract described in this section, the victim applies for assistance in the same manner as provided for regarding payments under the crime victims compensation account.