CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE
BILL 1269
Chapter 223, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
DEATH INVESTIGATIONS FUNDING
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the House March 18,
1997
Yeas 95 Nays 3
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 16, 1997
Yeas 40 Nays 9
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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.
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IRV NEWHOUSE
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 26, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 26, 1997 - 11:02 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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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
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.
Passed the House March 18, 1997.
Passed the Senate April 16, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 26, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 26, 1997.