BILL REQ. #:  Z-0940.2 



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SENATE BILL 6415
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State of Washington61st Legislature2010 Regular Session

By Senators King, Honeyford, Kohl-Welles, and Kline; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Read first time 01/14/10.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of superior court judges in Yakima county; amending RCW 2.08.063; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 2.08.063 and 2005 c 95 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     There shall be in the county of Lincoln one judge of the superior court; in the county of Skagit, four judges of the superior court; in the county of Walla Walla, two judges of the superior court; in the county of Whitman, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Yakima, ((eight)) nine judges of the superior court; in the county of Adams, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Whatcom, three judges of the superior court.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The additional judicial position created by section 1 of this act in Yakima county becomes effective only if the county through its legislative authority documents its approval of the additional position and its agreement that it will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of such additional judicial position as provided by statute.

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