CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5529

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 19, 1997   YEAS 49   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 9, 1997   YEAS 96   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5529 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

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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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5529

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Kohl, Horn, Heavey, Schow, Fairley, Winsley and Oke)

Read first time 03/05/97.

Providing written receipts to tenants. 

    AN ACT Relating to requiring a landlord to provide a written receipt if requested; and adding a new section to chapter 59.18 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 59.18 RCW to read as follows:

    A landlord shall provide, upon the request of a tenant, a written receipt for any payments made by the tenant.

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