CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1599
68TH LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House April 14, 2023
  Yeas 96  Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 6, 2023
  Yeas 46  Nays 0
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 1599 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington
HOUSE BILL 1599
AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2023 Regular Session
ByRepresentatives Goodman, Berry, Ramel, and Pollet; by request of Washington State Patrol
Read first time 01/26/23.Referred to Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary.
AN ACT Relating to court files and records exemptions for firearm background checks; and amending RCW 71.05.620.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 71.05.620 and 2018 c 201 s 3028 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The files and records of court proceedings under this chapter and chapter 71.34 RCW shall be closed but shall be accessible to:
(a) The department;
(b) The department of social and health services;
(c) The authority;
(d) The state hospitals as defined in RCW 72.23.010;
(e) Any person who is the subject of a petition;
(f) The attorney or guardian of the person;
(g) Resource management services for that person; ((and))
(h) Service providers authorized to receive such information by resource management services; and
(i) The Washington state patrol firearms background division to conduct background checks for processing and purchasing firearms, concealed pistol licenses, alien firearms licenses, firearm rights restoration petitions under chapter 9.41 RCW, and release of firearms from evidence, including appeals of denial.
(2) The authority shall adopt rules to implement this section.
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