CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1687
Chapter 3, Laws of 2020
66TH LEGISLATURE
2020 REGULAR SESSION
CRIMINAL DEFENSES--VICTIM IDENTITY
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2020
Passed by the House February 12, 2020
  Yeas 90  Nays 5
LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate February 26, 2020
  Yeas 46  Nays 3
CYRUS HABIB
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 ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1687 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved March 5, 2020 11:45 AM
FILED
March 5, 2020
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington
Secretary of State
State of Washington
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1687
Passed Legislature - 2020 Regular Session
State of Washington
66th Legislature
2019 Regular Session
ByRepresentatives Stanford, Doglio, Macri, Hansen, Orwall, Appleton, Jinkins, Ormsby, Valdez, and Davis
Read first time 01/28/19.Referred to Committee on Public Safety.
AN ACT Relating to limiting defenses based on victim identity; adding a new section to chapter 9A.08 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 9A.16 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 9A.08 RCW to read as follows:
A defendant does not suffer from diminished capacity based on the discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, including under circumstances in which the victim made an unwanted nonforcible romantic or sexual advance towards the defendant, or in which the defendant and victim dated or had a romantic or sexual relationship.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 9A.16 RCW to read as follows:
A person is not justified in using force against another based on the discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, including under circumstances in which the victim made an unwanted nonforcible romantic or sexual advance towards the defendant, or in which the defendant and victim dated or had a romantic or sexual relationship.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3. This act may be known and cited as the Nikki Kuhnhausen act.
Passed by the House February 12, 2020.
Passed by the Senate February 26, 2020.
Approved by the Governor March 5, 2020.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 5, 2020.
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