CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2595

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 10, 2000   Yeas 93   Nays 0 Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 7, 2000   Yeas 44   Nays 0	CERTIFICATE We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2595  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.                           Chief Clerk                           Chief Clerk
President of the Senate

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 2595

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representatives Ogden, Lovick, Hankins, Radcliff, Mitchell and Kagi

Read first time 01/17/2000.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Authorizing entry of protection order information in the judicial information system.

    AN ACT Relating to protection orders; and amending RCW 26.50.160 and 74.34.130.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 26.50.160 and 1995 c 246 s 18 are each amended to read as follows:

    To prevent the issuance of competing protection orders in different courts and to give courts needed information for issuance of orders, the judicial information system shall be available in each district, municipal, and superior court by July 1, 1997, and shall include a data base containing the following information:

    (1) The names of the parties and the cause number for every order of protection issued under this title, every criminal no-contact order issued under chapter 10.99 RCW, every antiharassment order issued under chapter 10.14 RCW, every dissolution action under chapter 26.09 RCW, every third-party custody action under chapter 26.10 RCW, ((and)) every parentage action under chapter 26.10 RCW, and every order for protection issued under chapter 74.34 RCW;

    (2) A criminal history of the parties; and

    (3) Other relevant information necessary to assist courts in issuing orders under this chapter as determined by the judicial information system committee.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 74.34.130 and 1999 c 176 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:

    The court may order relief as it deems necessary for the protection of the petitioner, including, but not limited to the following:

    (1) Restraining respondent from committing acts of abandonment, abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation;

    (2) Excluding the respondent from petitioner's residence for a specified period or until further order of the court;

    (3) Prohibiting contact by respondent for a specified period or until further order of the court;

    (4) Requiring an accounting by respondent of the disposition of petitioner's income or other resources;

    (5) Restraining the transfer of property for a specified period not exceeding ninety days;

    (6) Requiring the respondent to pay the filing fee and court costs, including service fees, and to reimburse the petitioner for costs incurred in bringing the action, including a reasonable attorney's fee.

    Any relief granted by an order for protection, other than a judgment for costs, shall be for a fixed period not to exceed one year.  The clerk of the court shall enter any order for protection issued under this section into the judicial information system.

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