CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5148

Chapter 13, Laws of 2005

59th Legislature
2005 Regular Session



SLANDER OF A WOMAN



EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/24/05

Passed by the Senate February 16, 2005
  YEAS 47   NAYS 1

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 30, 2005
  YEAS 69   NAYS 28

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5148 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved April 8, 2005.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington		 
FILED
April 8, 2005 - 9:29 a.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5148
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Passed Legislature - 2005 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2005 Regular Session

By Senators Kohl-Welles, Kline, Fairley and Carrell

Read first time 01/14/2005.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to repealing the crime of slander of a woman; and repealing RCW 9.58.110 and 9.58.120.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
     (1) RCW 9.58.110 (Slander of woman) and 1909 c 249 s 181; and
     (2) RCW 9.58.120 (Testimony necessary to convict) and 1927 c 90 s 1 & 1909 c 249 s 182.


         Passed by the Senate February 16, 2005.
         Passed by the House March 30, 2005.
         Approved by the Governor April 8, 2005.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 8, 2005.