CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2707

                    Chapter 83, Laws of 1998

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

SEX OFFENDERS IN INMATE WORK PROGRAMS--LIMITING ACCESS TO INFORMATION ABOUT PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  3/20/98

Passed by the House February 10, 1998  Yeas 96   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 4, 1998   Yeas 45   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2707  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 20, 1998 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 20, 1998 - 5:07 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                     ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2707

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Backlund, Quall, Dickerson, Koster, O'Brien, Scott, Sullivan, Lambert, Cairnes, Wood, McDonald, Sherstad, Mulliken, Kessler, Ogden, Cooke, Conway, Anderson, Dunshee, Gardner, Ballasiotes and Dunn

Read first time 01/19/98.  Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections.

Prohibiting sex offenders in inmate work programs from obtaining private individuals' names.   

    AN ACT Relating to sex offenders in inmate work programs; adding a new section to chapter 72.09 RCW; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 72.09 RCW to read as follows:

    Administrators of work programs described in RCW 72.09.100 shall ensure that no inmate convicted of a sex offense as defined in chapter 9A.44 RCW obtains access to names, addresses, or telephone numbers of private individuals while performing his or her duties in an inmate work program.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.

    Passed the House February 10, 1998.

    Passed the Senate March 4, 1998.

Approved by the Governor March 20, 1998.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 20, 1998.