CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6186
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate February 6, 2024
  Yeas 49  Nays 0

President of the Senate
Passed by the House February 27, 2024
  Yeas 95  Nays 0

Speaker of the House of Representatives
CERTIFICATE
I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6186 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Secretary
Secretary
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Secretary of State
State of Washington

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6186

Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
BySenate Human Services (originally sponsored by Senators Kauffman, Dhingra, Hasegawa, Valdez, and C. Wilson)
READ FIRST TIME 01/26/24.
AN ACT Relating to disclosure of recipient information to the Washington state patrol for purposes of locating missing and murdered indigenous women and other missing and murdered indigenous persons; and amending RCW 74.04.062.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 74.04.062 and 2011 1st sp.s. c 15 s 67 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(a) Upon written request of a person who has been properly identified as an officer of the law or a properly identified United States immigration official the department or authority shall disclose to such officer the current address and location of a recipient of public welfare if the officer furnishes the department or authority with such person's name and social security account number and satisfactorily demonstrates that such recipient is a fugitive, that the location or apprehension of such fugitive is within the officer's official duties, and that the request is made in the proper exercise of those duties.
(b) When the department or authority becomes aware that a public assistance recipient is the subject of an outstanding warrant, the department or authority may contact the appropriate law enforcement agency and, if the warrant is valid, provide the law enforcement agency with the location of the recipient.
(2) To the extent allowed under federal law, upon written request of a law enforcement officer from a state, local, or tribal law enforcement agency, the department or authority shall disclose to such officer whether the recipient has accessed his or her public assistance benefits in the last 30 days for the purpose of assisting the officer in confirming whether the recipient is alive if the recipient is the subject of a missing person's report as described in RCW 36.28A.120. For purposes of this section, "law enforcement officer" and "law enforcement agency" have the same meaning as defined in RCW 10.122.020.
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