CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1382
Chapter 114, Laws of 2019
66TH LEGISLATURE
2019 REGULAR SESSION
PROSTITUTION--EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE--CRIMINAL IMMUNITY
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 28, 2019
Passed by the House March 6, 2019 Yeas 97 Nays 0 FRANK CHOPP
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 12, 2019 Yeas 47 Nays 0 KAREN KEISER
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1382 as passed by House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved April 24, 2019 1:42 PM | FILED April 25, 2019 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
HOUSE BILL 1382
Passed Legislature - 2019 Regular Session
State of Washington | 66th Legislature | 2019 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Pellicciotti, Kraft, Macri, Goodman, Doglio, Pettigrew, Ormsby, Jinkins, Stanford, Appleton, and Riccelli
Read first time 01/21/19.Referred to Committee on Public Safety.
AN ACT Relating to increasing access to emergency assistance for victims by providing immunity from prosecution for prostitution offenses in some circumstances; and adding a new section to chapter
9A.88 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter
9A.88 RCW to read as follows:
(1) A person acting in good faith who seeks emergency assistance for a victim of an offense included in subsection (4) of this section may not be charged or prosecuted for prostitution under RCW
9A.88.030, or an equivalent municipal ordinance, if the evidence for the charge of prostitution was obtained as a result of the person seeking emergency assistance.
(2) A person who is a victim of an offense included in subsection (4) of this section and is seeking emergency assistance on account of the offense may not be charged or prosecuted for prostitution under RCW
9A.88.030, or an equivalent municipal ordinance, if the evidence for the charge of prostitution was obtained as a result of the need for emergency assistance.
(3) The protection in this section from prosecution for prostitution is not grounds for suppression of evidence in other criminal charges.
(4) A victim of one of the following offenses, or a person seeking emergency assistance on his or her behalf, qualifies for immunity from prostitution charges as provided in subsections (1) and (2) of this section:
(a) Any violent offense as defined in RCW
9.94A.030;
(b) Assault in the third degree under RCW
9A.36.031;
(c) Assault in the fourth degree under RCW
9A.36.041, or an equivalent municipal ordinance;
(d) Rape in the third degree under RCW
9A.44.060.
Passed by the House March 6, 2019.
Passed by the Senate April 12, 2019.
Approved by the Governor April 24, 2019.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 25, 2019.
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