CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5170

Chapter 43, Laws of 2011

62nd Legislature
2011 Regular Session



DISTRICT COURT--JUDGES--GRANT COUNTY



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/11

Passed by the Senate February 18, 2011
  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 1, 2011
  YEAS 92   NAYS 1

FRANK CHOPP
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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 5170 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved April 13, 2011, 2:03 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 13, 2011







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5170
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Passed Legislature - 2011 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2011 Regular Session

By Senators Holmquist Newbry, Parlette, Kohl-Welles, and Kline; by request of Board For Judicial Administration

Read first time 01/17/11.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.



     AN ACT Relating to increasing the number of judges to be elected in Grant county; and reenacting and amending RCW 3.34.010.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 3.34.010 and 2009 c 86 s 1 and 2009 c 26 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall be: Adams, two; Asotin, one; Benton, five; Chelan, two; Clallam, two; Clark, six; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, three; Douglas, one; Ferry, one; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, ((two)) three; Grays Harbor, two; Island, one; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-three in 2009, twenty-five in 2010, and twenty-six in 2011; Kitsap, four; Kittitas, two; Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two; Pacific, two; Pend Oreille, one; Pierce, eleven; San Juan, one; Skagit, two; Skamania, one; Snohomish, eight; Spokane, eight; Stevens, one; Thurston, three; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, two; Whatcom, two; Whitman, one; Yakima, four. This number may be increased only as provided in RCW 3.34.020.


         Passed by the Senate February 18, 2011.
         Passed by the House April 1, 2011.
         Approved by the Governor April 13, 2011.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 13, 2011.