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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5549

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senators Stratton, Pullen, Rasmussen and Deccio; by request of Department of Corrections

Read first time 2/4/87 and referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

AN ACT Relating to the resetting of execution dates; and amending RCW 10.95.200.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 20, chapter 138, Laws of 1981 and RCW 10.95.200 are each amended to read as follows:

          Whenever the day appointed for the execution of a defendant shall have passed, from any cause whatever, without the execution of such defendant having occurred, ((the defendant shall be returned to the trial court from which the death warrant was issued and)) the trial court which issued the original death warrant shall issue a new death warrant in accordance with RCW 10.95.160.  The defendant's presence before the court is not required.