CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE
BILL 1636
Chapter
105, Laws of 1997
55th
Legislature
1997
Regular Session
CRIMINAL
HARASSMENT--INCLUSION OF IMMEDIATE THREAT OF INJURY
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the House March 12, 1997
Yeas 97 Nays 0
 CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 9, 1997
Yeas 46 Nays 0
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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
1636 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the
dates hereon set forth.
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BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 21, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 21, 1997 - 4:22 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 1636
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/04/97. Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
Specifying imminence of threat to bodily harm for crime of
harassment.
AN
ACT Relating to the crime of harassment; and amending RCW 9A.46.020.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
9A.46.020 and 1992 c 186 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
A person is guilty of harassment if:
(a)
Without lawful authority, the person knowingly threatens:
(i)
To cause bodily injury immediately or in the future to the person
threatened or to any other person; or
(ii)
To cause physical damage to the property of a person other than the actor; or
(iii)
To subject the person threatened or any other person to physical confinement or
restraint; or
(iv)
Maliciously to do any other act which is intended to substantially harm the
person threatened or another with respect to his or her physical or mental
health or safety; and
(b)
The person by words or conduct places the person threatened in reasonable fear
that the threat will be carried out.
(2)
A person who harasses another is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable under
chapter 9A.20 RCW, except that the person is guilty of a class C felony if
either of the following applies: (a) The person has previously been convicted
in this or any other state of any crime of harassment, as defined in RCW
9A.46.060, of the same victim or members of the victim's family or household or
any person specifically named in a no-contact or no-harassment order; or (b)
the person harasses another person under subsection (1)(a)(i) of this section
by threatening to kill the person threatened or any other person.
(3)
The penalties provided in this section for harassment do not preclude the
victim from seeking any other remedy otherwise available under law.
Passed the House March 12, 1997.
Passed the Senate April 9, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 21, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1997.