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HOUSE BILL 2282
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Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/12/94. Referred to Committee on
Judiciary.
Providing that a district court judges
salary is not reduced when a pro tempore judge serves due to an affidavit of
prejudice.
AN ACT Relating to district
court judges pro tempore; and amending RCW 3.34.130.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 3.34.130
and 1993 c 330 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Each district court
shall designate one or more persons as judge pro tempore who shall serve during
the temporary absence, disqualification, or incapacity of a district judge.
The qualifications of a judge pro tempore shall be the same as for a district
judge, except that with respect to RCW 3.34.060(1), the person appointed need
only be a registered voter of the state. A district that has a population of
not more than ten thousand and that has no person available who meets the
qualifications under RCW 3.34.060(2) (a) or (b), may appoint as a pro tempore
judge a person who has taken and passed the qualifying examination for the
office of district judge as is provided by rule of the supreme court. A judge
pro tempore may sit in any district of the county for which he or she is
appointed. A judge pro tempore shall be paid the salary authorized by the
county legislative authority. For each day that a judge pro tempore serves in
excess of thirty days during any calendar year, the annual salary of the judge
in whose place he or she serves shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-two
hundred fiftieth of such salary: PROVIDED, That each full time district judge
shall have up to fifteen days annual leave without reduction for service on
judicial commissions established by the legislature or the chief justice of the
supreme court. No reduction in salary shall occur when a judge pro tempore
serves while a district judge is using sick leave granted in accordance with
RCW 3.34.100 or while a district court judge is disqualified from serving
following the filing of an affidavit of prejudice.
(2)
The legislature may appropriate money for the purpose of reimbursing counties
for the salaries of judges pro tempore for certain days in excess of thirty
worked per year that the judge pro tempore was required to work as the result
of service by a judge on a commission as authorized under subsection (1) of
this section. No later than September 1 of each year, each county treasurer
shall certify to the administrator for the courts for the year ending the
preceding June 30, the number of days in excess of thirty that any judge pro
tempore was required to work as the result of service by a judge on a commission
as authorized under subsection (1) of this section. Upon receipt of the
certification, the administrator for the courts shall reimburse the county from
money appropriated for that purpose.
