HOUSE BILL REPORT

SB 5015

BYSenators Halsan, Talmadge, Newhouse and West;by request of Statute Law Committee

Revising terminology regarding municipal courts.

House Committe on Judiciary

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (14)

      Signed by Representatives Armstrong, Chair; Crane, Vice Chair; Appelwick, Brough, Hargrove, Heavey, Locke, Moyer, Niemi, Padden, Patrick, Schmidt, Scott and Wang.

House Staff:Bill Perry (786-7123)

AS PASSED HOUSE FEBRUARY 11, 1987

BACKGROUND:

There currently remain in the RCW isolated references to police judges and police courts, which are now obsolete.  There are also some substantive provisions regarding municipal courts which were, as a practical matter, superseded by the Court Improvement Act of 1984.

SUMMARY:

References to police judges and police courts are changed to municipal judges and municipal courts.  Isolated substantive provisions and other obsolete statutory language relating to such courts are repealed if they deal with matters addressed in the Court Improvement Act of 1984.  For example, a provision requiring the chief of police to prosecute violations of city ordinances before a police judge is repealed.

Fiscal Note:      Not Requested.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    None Presented.

House Committee - Testified Against:      None Presented.

House Committee - Testimony For:    None Presented.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None Presented.