CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1024

Chapter 182, Laws of 2005

59th Legislature
2005 Regular Session



COURTS--SALARY WARRANTS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/24/05

Passed by the House February 4, 2005
  Yeas 96   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 15, 2005
  Yeas 47   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1024 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


RICHARD NAFZIGER
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Chief Clerk
Approved April 26, 2005.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 26, 2005 - 2:09 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1024
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Passed Legislature - 2005 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2005 Regular Session

By Representatives Kirby and Campbell; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Prefiled 1/5/2005. Read first time 01/10/2005.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to requirements for issuing salary warrants for judges; and amending RCW 2.56.040.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 2.56.040 and 1957 c 259 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     The chief justice shall consider all recommendations of the administrator for the assignment of judges, and, in ((his)) the discretion of the chief justice, direct any judge whose calendar, in the judgment of the chief justice, will permit, to hold court in any county or district where need therefor exists, to the end that the courts of this state shall function with maximum efficiency, and that the work of other courts shall be equitably distributed. It shall be the duty of every judge to obey such direction of the chief justice unless excused by ((him)) the chief justice for sufficient cause. ((No salary warrant shall be issued pursuant to RCW 2.08.100 until the judge who is to receive the same shall have made an affidavit, in the manner provided by law, that he has fully complied with the provisions of RCW 2.56.040 and 2.56.050. Said affidavit may be made a part of the affidavit required by RCW 2.08.100.))


         Passed by the House February 4, 2005.
         Passed by the Senate April 15, 2005.
         Approved by the Governor April 26, 2005.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 26, 2005.