CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6412



59th Legislature
2006 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 14, 2006
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0


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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 3, 2006
  YEAS 97   NAYS 1


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6412 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6412
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Passed Legislature - 2006 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2006 Regular Session

By Senators Doumit, Zarelli and Hargrove

Read first time 01/12/2006.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to superior court judges; amending RCW 2.08.064; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 2.08.064 and 2003 c 96 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     There shall be in the counties of Benton and Franklin jointly, six judges of the superior court; in the county of Clallam, ((two)) three judges of the superior court; in the county of Jefferson, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Snohomish, fifteen judges of the superior court; in the counties of Asotin, Columbia and Garfield jointly, one judge of the superior court; in the county of Cowlitz, ((four)) five judges of the superior court; in the counties of Klickitat and Skamania jointly, one judge of the superior court.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The additional judicial positions created by section 1 of this act in Clallam and Cowlitz counties shall be effective only if each county through its duly constituted legislative authority documents its approval of the additional positions and its agreement that it will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of such additional judicial positions as provided by statute.

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