CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1269

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 18, 1997   Yeas 95   Nays 3 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 16, 1997   Yeas 40   Nays 9

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1269   as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1269

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Robertson, Costa, Scott, Tokuda, Delvin and L. Thomas

Read first time 01/21/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Providing moneys for the death investigations' account.   

    AN ACT Relating to death investigations; and amending RCW 70.58.107.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.58.107 and 1991 c 3 s 343 are each amended to read as follows:

    The department of health shall charge a fee of ((eleven)) thirteen dollars for certified copies of records and for copies or information provided for research, statistical, or administrative purposes, and eight dollars for a search of the files or records when no copy is made.  The department shall prescribe by regulation fees to be paid for preparing sealed files and for opening sealed files.

    No fee may be demanded or required for furnishing certified copies of a birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, annulment, or legal separation record for use in connection with a claim for compensation or pension pending before the veterans administration.

    The department shall keep a true and correct account of all fees received and turn the fees over to the state treasurer on a weekly basis.

    Local registrars shall charge the same fees as the state as hereinabove provided and as prescribed by department regulation, except that local registrars shall charge ((eleven)) thirteen dollars for the first copy of a death certificate and ((six)) eight dollars for each additional copy of the same death certificate when the additional copies are ordered at the same time as the first copy.  All such fees collected, except for ((three)) five dollars of each fee for the issuance of a certified copy, shall be paid to the jurisdictional health department.

    All local registrars in cities and counties shall keep a true and correct account of all fees received under this section for the issuance of certified copies and shall turn ((three)) five dollars of the fee over to the state treasurer on or before the first day of January, April, July, and October.

    ((Three)) Five dollars of each fee imposed for the issuance of certified copies, except for copies suitable for display issued under RCW 70.58.085, at both the state and local levels shall be held by the state treasurer in the death investigations' account established by RCW 43.79.445.

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