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                                                      HOUSE BILL 2240

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1994 Regular Session

By Representatives Appelwick and Padden; by request of Law Revision Commission

Read first time 01/11/94.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Correcting a double amendment related to records of registered voters.

          AN ACT Relating to correcting a double amendment related to records of registered voters; and reenacting and amending RCW 29.04.160.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 29.04.160 and 1993 c 441 s 2 and 1993 c 408 s 10 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

          As soon as any or all of the voter registration data from the counties has been received under RCW 29.04.150 and processed, the secretary of state shall provide a duplicate copy of this data to the ((state central committee)) political party organization or other individual making the request, at cost, shall provide a duplicate copy of the master state-wide computer tape or data file of registered voters to the statute law committee without cost, and shall provide a duplicate copy of the master state-wide computer tape or electronic data file of registered voters to the department of information services for purposes of creating the jury source list without cost.  Restrictions as to the commercial use of the information on the state-wide computer tape or data file of registered voters, and penalties for its misuse, shall be the same as provided in RCW 29.04.110 and 29.04.120 as now existing or hereafter amended.

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