CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2377

                    Chapter 19, Laws of 1994

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

        BUSINESS RECORDS‑-OPTICAL IMAGING REPRODUCTIONS

                     ADMISSIBLE AS EVIDENCE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/9/94

Passed by the House February 4, 1994   Yeas 91   Nays 0 BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 26, 1994   Yeas 47   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marilyn Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2377 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

MARILYN SHOWALTER                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 21, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                     March 21, 1994 - 11:21 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2377

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Representatives Appelwick, Johanson, Padden, H. Myers, Ballasiotes, Tate, Scott and Anderson

Read first time 01/14/94.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Including optical imaging reproductions as business record copies admissible as evidence.

    AN ACT Relating to optical imaging; and amending RCW 5.46.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 5.46.010 and 1959 c 125 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling or any department or agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, optical imaging, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business unless the same is an asset or is representative of title to an asset held in a custodial or fiduciary capacity or unless its preservation is required by law.  Such reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court.  The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement or facsimile, does not preclude admission of the original.

    Passed the House February 4, 1994.

    Passed the Senate February 26, 1994.

Approved by the Governor March 21, 1994.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 21, 1994.