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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5961

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Talmadge and Vognild

Read first time 2/20/89 and referred to Committee on  Law & Justice.

AN ACT Relating to crime victim compensation; amending RCW 7.68.080; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 8, chapter 122, Laws of 1973 1st ex. sess. as last amended by section 2, chapter 98, Laws of 1986 and RCW 7.68.080 are each amended to read as follows:

          The provisions of chapter 51.36 RCW as now or hereafter amended govern the provision of medical aid under this chapter to victims injured as a result of a criminal act, including criminal acts committed between July 1, 1981, and January 1, 1983, except that:

          (1) The provisions contained in RCW 51.36.030((,)) and 51.36.040((, and 51.36.080)) as now or hereafter amended do not apply to this chapter;

          (2) The specific provisions of RCW 51.36.020 as now or hereafter amended relating to supplying emergency transportation do not apply:  PROVIDED, That when the injury to any victim is so serious as to require his being taken from the place of injury to a place of treatment, reasonable transportation costs to the nearest place of proper treatment shall be reimbursed from the fund established pursuant to RCW 7.68.090.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1989.