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                                                     SENATE BILL 5682

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Sutherland, Oke, Prentice and Erwin

Read first time 02/09/93.  Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.

Exempting certain religious publications and subscribers from insurance provisions.

          AN ACT Relating to an exemption from Title 48 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 48.01 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 48.01 RCW to read as follows:

          This title does not apply to a religious publication, or its subscribers, that:

          (1) Is a nonprofit religious organization;

          (2) Is limited to subscribers who are members of the same denomination or religion;

          (3) Acts as an organizational clearing house for information between subscribers who have financial, physical, or medical needs and subscribers who choose to assist with those needs, matching subscribers with the present ability to pay with subscribers with a present financial or medical need;

          (4) Pays for the subscriber financial or medical needs by payments directly from one subscriber to another; and

          (5) Suggests amounts to give that are voluntary among the subscribers, with no assumption of risk or promise to pay either among the subscribers or between the subscribers and the publication.

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