CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1388

                   Chapter 349, Laws of 1999

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

CRIMINAL JURISDICTION ABOARD CONVEYANCES

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 8, 1999   Yeas 97   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the House of Representatives               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1999   Yeas 47   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 HOUSE BILL 1388  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 May 17, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                              May 17, 1999 - 3:15 p.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1388

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives Keiser, Ballasiotes, Schual‑Berke, Mitchell, Hurst, O'Brien, Lovick and Delvin

Read first time 01/22/1999.  Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections.

Clarifying the state's jurisdiction over crimes committed in the airspace over the state. 

    AN ACT Relating to state criminal jurisdiction; and amending RCW 9A.04.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.04.030 and 1981 c 187 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    The following persons are liable to punishment:

    (1) A person who commits in the state any crime, in whole or in part.

    (2) A person who commits out of the state any act which, if committed within it, would be theft and is afterward found in the state with any of the stolen property.

    (3) A person who being out of the state, counsels, causes, procures, aids, or abets another to commit a crime in this state.

    (4) A person who, being out of the state, abducts or kidnaps by force or fraud, any person, contrary to the laws of the place where the act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys such person into this state.

    (5) A person who commits an act without the state which affects persons or property within the state, which, if committed within the state, would be a crime.

    (6) A person who, being out of the state, makes a statement, declaration, verification, or certificate under RCW 9A.72.085 which, if made within the state, would be perjury.

(7) A person who commits an act onboard a conveyance within the state of Washington, including the airspace over the state of Washington, that subsequently lands, docks, or stops within the state which, if committed within the state, would be a crime.

    Passed the House March 8, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 6, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 17, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 17, 1999.