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                                          ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 5677

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Pullen, Bailey and Johnson

Read first time 2/1/89 and referred to Committee on   Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to official misrepresentation; and adding a new section to chapter 42.20 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 42.20 RCW to read as follows:

          No superintendent of a state institution shall misrepresent the typical, current, day-to-day operations of a state facility to public officials of the federal, state, or local governments in conjunction with an inspection of the facility.  For purposes of this section, "superintendent" shall include the superintendents of the state institutions for the mentally ill, developmentally disabled, deaf and blind, veterans, juvenile rehabilitation, and adult corrections.