CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1069

                   Chapter 142, Laws of 1999

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

MULTIPLE DEATH INVESTIGATIONS--EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 12, 1999   Yeas 96   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the House of Representatives               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 12, 1999   Yeas 49   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1069  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.            DEAN R. FOSTER                           Chief Clerk           TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved April 30, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                           April 30, 1999 - 11:46 a.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1069

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Scott, Mulliken and O'Brien)

Read first time 03/08/1999.

Authorizing the forensic investigations council to make expenditures to assist in investigations of multiple deaths.  

    AN ACT Relating to investigations of multiple deaths; and amending RCW 43.103.090.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.103.090 and 1995 c 398 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    The council may:

    (1) Meet at such times and places as may be designated by a majority vote of the council members or, if a majority cannot agree, by the chair;

    (2) Adopt rules governing the council and the conduct of its meetings;

    (3) Require reports from the state toxicologist on matters pertaining to the toxicology laboratory;

    (4) Require reports from the chief of the Washington state patrol on matters pertaining to the crime laboratory;

    (5) Be actively involved in the preparation of the crime laboratory and toxicology laboratory budgets and shall approve the crime laboratory and toxicology laboratory budgets prior to their formal submission to the office of financial management pursuant to RCW 43.88.030;

    (6) Authorize the expenditure of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars per biennium from the council's death investigations account appropriation for the purpose of assisting local jurisdictions in the investigation of multiple deaths involving unanticipated, extraordinary, and catastrophic events, or involving multiple jurisdictions.  The council shall adopt rules consistent with this subsection for the purposes of authorizing expenditure of the funds;

(7) Do anything, necessary or convenient, which enables the council to perform its duties and to exercise its powers;

    (((7))) (8) Appoint a toxicologist as state toxicologist to serve at the pleasure of the council; and

    (((8))) (9) Set the salary for the state toxicologist.

    Passed the House March 12, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 12, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 30, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 30, 1999.